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A pair of young male goats play around and playfully butt with each other, practicing real world male superiority dynamics at a goat farm in Rajasthan. The rest of the goats are fed at their feeding trough within the pen.

Rajasthan·livestock

A Rajasthani goat farmer at a goat farm in Ajmer, Rajasthan. He steadies the mother goats as their kids drink from their udders, while also deeding them at a stall at the same time, so that they are distracted.

farmland · livestock

In their large pen outside a Rajasthan village, a goat farmer calls his brood in for a feed. They come running through the farm gate and follow the man to the feeding pit.

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This goat in Rajasthan truly has the longest and largest ears we have ever seen on one! They all seem to have exceptionally long ears, comparatively!

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Bakr Eid will take place in July 2020. What will the Corona epidemic do to curtail the festive spirits this year? See the massive ears and long tongue of that goat ram which is being prepared for sale...

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Rajasthan can be green and fertile in the monsoons, but in this summer dryness, there is barren-ness all around.

livestock · desert

Just what nutrition do these goats obtain from this arid Rajasthan habitat? Apparently a lot as the acacias, zizyphus and other shrubbery affords them enough nutrition!

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With dangly ears and a white patch on its forehead, this little goat is definitely having a moment with the camera.

Rajasthan·farmland · livestock

Bakri gets coralled into their enclosure at a goat farm near Ajmer. They want to get to their feeding station where the younger and older ones are stall fed. The odd bleet is heard every few seconds.

livestock · desert

Goats in a dry, arid area of Rajasthan manage to even eat the leaves of a thorny zizyphus ber shrub.

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Did you know that close to 65% of the world's population drinks goat milk? This milk is higher in calcium, protein and calories than cow's milk and is 12% lower in lactose. watch in slow motion as this man milks his goat in Rajasthan.

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Rock salt is very important for all livestock and these goats sure seem to know that. The salt lick kept for them in this goat farm has got permanent goat-mouth shaped dents in it due to them vigorously licking it on a constant basis.

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Goatherd lets his flock of goats out of their enclosure to drink water. He casually gets behind one of the female goats and milks her for a glass-full of goats' milk.

wildlife · village

Goats get put away and corralled for the night in Ghorakhuri, a village in Garhwal, so that a leopard doesn't get them in the night...

livestock · highway

Grazing alongside a road, this herd of goats has lucked out in finding a broken Peepul branch, getting easy access to its leaves.

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livestock · highway

Goats are still bred in Delhi, for milk and meat. This flock of goats seems to have been let loose by its owner, to find whatever green feed that they can, along a rough patch of land near a busy road...

livestock · farmland

A large goat is weighed on a scale to check its potential for yielding mutton, before sale to a potential buyer at a bakri farm in Rajasthan's Ajmer district.

livestock · farmland

A large goat is weighed on a scale to check its potential for yielding mutton, before sale to a potential buyer at a bakri farm in Rajasthan's Ajmer district.

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Imagine - a city of goats! Among the human masses live a multitude of domestic animals, even in the urban hear of New Delhi... These goats graze the roadsides of Dilli, looking for grasses and lopped fodder.

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These goats manage to eke out a living in Dilli, eating off scant weeds, Parthenium, grasses and leftovers from human meals. They even stand on their rear legs and climb or jump to be able to reach low handing branches.

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Goat herders roam their flocks through Delhi city: Bakri-wallahs or bakarwals in the big city! Imagine seeing goat shepherds in the heart of South Delhi and yet that it what we see on a fairly regular basis...

livestock · bazaar

In the badlands of Delhi's southern end live a goat breeding herding community that takes their livestock deep into the Aravalli forests for grazing. Almost every week, they tell us that a goat is picked up by a leopard.