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A Hills Hoist is a height-adjustable rotary clothes line, designed to permit the compact hanging of wet clothes so that their maximum area can be exposed for wind drying by rotation. They are considered one of Australia's most recognisable icons , and are used frequently by artists as a metaphor for Australian suburbia in the 1950s and 1960s.
While the sport can look rough, the goats are bred for this, and the competitors are trained for it. The goats live a life just like any other goat, getting fed, watered, and checked in regularly. Most people think that the flank hurts the goat, but there is a special method to doing this because no one wants to purposely hurt a goat or any animal.
The public is invited to meet the working rescue goats at an Aug. 26 free festival with presentations, hikes, games, nature art and more. Goats return to Erie Benedictines' Glinodo property to ...
Feral goats consist of many breeds of domestic goats, all of which stem from the wild goat (C. aegagrus). Although breeds can look different, they all share similar characteristics. Physically, both domestic and feral goats can be identified by their prominent straight horns (more prominent on male goats), rectangular pupils, and coarse hair.
A clothes line, also spelled clothesline, also known as a wash line, is a device for hanging clothes on for the purpose of drying or airing out the articles. It is made of any type of rope , cord, wire, or twine that has been stretched between two points (e.g. two posts), outdoors or indoors, above ground level.
A male goat stands about 1 m (3.3 ft) at the shoulder to the waist and can weigh considerably more than the female (around 30% more in some cases). Male goats also have longer horns and longer beards than females. The head-and-body length can range from 120–179 cm (47–70 in), with a small tail adding 10–20 cm (3.9–7.9 in). [4] [5] [6]
There have been incidents of polycerate goats (having as many as eight horns), [9] although this is a genetic rarity thought to be inherited. The horns are most typically removed in commercial dairy goat herds, to reduce the injuries to humans and other goats. 4 horns are the norm for the Austrian goat breed Vierhornziege (four-horned goat). [10]
The Rove goat is primarily characterized by its long, twisted horns; they can reach nearly 4 ft in length. The goats have a smooth coat often in red or black, but also in ash gray, red speckled with white, red mixed with gray, black with tan markings under the eyes and nose, or red and black. It is a medium-sized goat.