. Modern milk goats : status of the milk goat industry; methods of profitable milk production; care and management of commercial herds and household goats . Goats. 118 MODERN MILK GOATS cause of their eagerness and their immense, unwieldy strength, never tlie outcome of intentional attack. A headstrong buck in a tremendous hurry to get to a wait- .. ing doe can be easih' con- trolled by a firm grip on his beard and a tap on his nose with a small switch. If, however, the keeper habitually loses his tem- per and strikes or kicks his buck, real viciousness is in time aroused, and the animal, even
. Modern milk goats : status of the milk goat industry; methods of profitable milk production; care and management of commercial herds and household goats . Goats. 118 MODERN MILK GOATS cause of their eagerness and their immense, unwieldy strength, never tlie outcome of intentional attack. A headstrong buck in a tremendous hurry to get to a wait- .. ing doe can be easih' con- trolled by a firm grip on his beard and a tap on his nose with a small switch. If, however, the keeper habitually loses his tem- per and strikes or kicks his buck, real viciousness is in time aroused, and the animal, even though horn- less, becomes dangerous. There is not the slightest necessity of such an occur- rence. A full grown buck weighing, say, two bun- ded fifty pounds, is an al- most unbelievably power- ful creature. Yet there are many herds where the entire charge of tlie l)uck and the breeding is in the liands of women, sometimes small, light women, who have no difficulty at all in controlling these huge, impetuous, powerful Fig. 35.—The best of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Richards, Irmagarde. Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott
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