GLOSSARY
Buck – an uncastrated male goat
Buckling – a male kid, a year or less
Cabrito – Spanish “little goat”, the meat of a young goat
Capretto – Italian “little goat”, same as cabrito, sometime used in international goat recipes
Caprine – family to which the goat belongs
Chevon – French “goat meat”, any type of goat meat
Chẻvre – soft French cheese crafted of goat’s milk
Doe – female goat
Doeling – a female kid, a year or less
Ennobled – an honor classification attainable through pedigree and exhibition performance of registered Boer goats
Forage – fibrous animal fees such as browse, grass, and hay
Guard Dog (or Llama or Donkey) – an animal who bonds to and stays with goats to guard them from predators such as coyotes, wolves, bears, cougars and eagles
Kid – a baby goat of either sex
Papered – registered goat
Papers – registration certificates
Pedigree – an animal’s “family tree”
Purebred – an animal whose ancestors for a set number of generations were registered and all of the same breed
Registered Goat – a purebred goat whose pedigree is registered in a registry’s official herdbook
Rumen – the large first stomach compartment of a ruminant where feed is broken down into usable elements
Ruminant – a cud-chewing animal with four-compartment stomach ie. goat, cow, sheep
Scrub Goat – a goat of mixed ancestry commonly used for land clearing; also called a brush goat
Starter Goat - a weaned kid goat grown to desired weight for meat consumption (same as a feeder pig or steer)
Unrecorded – a goat, often of unknown ancestry, whose pedigree has not been recorded; also called a grade goat
Wether – (noun) a castrated male goat of any age, (verb) the act of castrating a male goat
Yearling – a goat of either sex between one and two years of age