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Lazy S J T Ranch Critters

Did you know???

These wonderful critters are known by many names. Myotonic goats,Tennessee meat goat, Nervous goat, Stiff legged goat, Wooden legged goat, and Tennessee scare goat.

They are classified as a meat goat not a dairy goat.

They appeared in Marshal County, Tennessee in the early 1800's. Brought by a man named Jon Tinsley who was from Nova Scotia. There is nothing known about these goats before that time.

These wonderful animals were bred for a sad but purposeful reason. They were put into flocks of sheep so that when or if a predator attacked the flock the fainting goat would faint when startled and the predator would focus on them instead of the flock who would have time to get away. This is very sad but true.

Did you know about "Excess Estrus"?

This is, does exhibiting signs of estrus, or standing heat, one cycle after they are bred. During the fifteenth to seventeenth days of a does pregnancy the doe can come back into heat. During this time the estrus cycle, the CL begins to regress, estrogen and OT suppress progesterone which causes the doe to exhibit behavioral estrus and ovulation. In a pregnant doe this is the time of pregnancy recognition and the doe starts to recognize the pregnancy overlap. Due to this overlap a doe can come back into heat while already pregnant. Some breeders will put there does back with the buck and write down both breeding dates and due dates, instead of having their does pregnancy checked which can be very expensive. But there is a catch, if a doe conceives on the "extra heat" when she is already pregnant, she can deliver two sets of kids three weeks apart. The scientific word for this is "superfetation". This has been reported to occur in all farm animal species. Pretty amazing!

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