Welcome to Goats Are Awesome!

This is a website all about goats! All the boring stuff, and the fun stuff.

Goat horns

Most goats naturally have two horns, of various shapes and sizes depending on the breed. There have been incidents of polycerate goats having as many as eight horns, although this is a genetic rarity thought to be inherited.

Goat eyes

Goats have horizontal, slit-shaped pupils. Because goats' irises are usually pale, their contrasting pupils are much more noticeable than in animals such as cattle, deer, most horses, and many sheep, whose similarly horizontal pupils blend into a dark iris and sclera. Goats have no tear ducts.

Goat diet

Goats are reputed to be willing to eat almost anything, including tin cans and cardboard boxes. While goats will not actually eat inedible material, they are browsing animals, not grazers like cattle and sheep, and (coupled with their highly curious nature) will chew on and taste just about anything remotely resembling plant matter to decide whether it is good to eat, including cardboard, clothing and paper (such as labels from tin cans).[28] Goats prefer to browse on vines, such as kudzu, on shrubbery and on weeds, more like deer than sheep, preferring them to grasses. Nightshade is poisonous; wilted fruit tree leaves can also kill goats.