Goat Dictionary

Buck: Male Goat
Doe: Female Goat
Doeling: Young female goat (teenager)
Buckling: young male goat (teenager)
Kid: Newborn Goats
Wether: Castrated male goat
Capretto: Meat that comes from kids
Chevon: Meat that comes from adult goats
Colostrum: The first milk that any animal (including humans) produce after they give birth. This milk helps to pass along the mother’s immunity to disease to her offspring
Polled: Breeds of goats naturally born without horns
Ruminant: a hoofed animal that digests its food in two steps: first by eating the raw material and regurgitating a semi-digested form known as cud, then chewing the cud (a process called ruminating). Ruminants have four stomachs and include cows, goats, sheep, llamas, bison, buffalo, elk and deer.
Debudding: Removing the horns just as they are starting to grow. Most dairy goat farmers remove the horns at an early age for the sake of safety for both people and other animals.