Happy Kids It's morning on the farm and two young pygmy goats are ready for some fun The cute kids jump onto a tree stump wagging their tails Then they hop off kicking their legs high into the air FUN FACT Kids just practice head butting But for adults head butting shows strength and power in a herd 4
They stand up on their hind legs They fall forward and butt heads But the kids aren't hurt They're just playing Pygmy goats love to play and explore Their cute looks small size and playful personalities make them popular pets
Pet pygmy goats come from breeders But this small animal originally came from West Africa A pygmy goat is a domesticated animal Its distant relative is the wild Bezoar goat People trained wild wild Bezoar goat goats to be tame over thousands of years That's how they became farm animals FUN FACT Goats can live 10 to 14 years The oldest known goat lived more than 22 years 6
The pygmy goat is also called the Cameroon Dwarf Goat It comes from the country of Cameroon Herds are now in many parts of West Africa In West Africa the pygmy goat is raised mostly for its meat but it also makes milk The first pygmy goats to leave Africa went to zoos in Sweden and Germany They first came to the United States in 1959 Africa West 7 Africa
