Kōrero: Goats and goat farming

Goats are agile and will eat all sorts of vegetation. This one has climbed into a peach tree to eat the foliage. As well as eating leaves and twigs, goats may also ringbark and kill the trees.
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Reference: Ag3205bRbt.tif
by G. R. Roberts
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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang
Allan Gillingham, Goats and goat farming – Goats in New Zealand, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/16586/an-agile-goat (accessed 17 February 2026).
He kōrero nā Allan Gillingham, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.