[Chat Log] March 1, 2019

[Chase]

How's your trip, @Pitya Ivyr

 

[Neb]

Hi!

 

[Neb]

Where'd you go?

 

[Pitya Ivyr]

it was alright - a tiny bit cold- then again Canada is more north soooo yeah. I got to hold a 3 day old baby goat - tour UBC's CCM (Centre for Comparative Medicine) I went to Vancouver and Agessiz Canada @Neb and yeeeah

 

[Chase]

Did you learn anything cool?

 

[Neb]

Baby goat!

 

[Pitya Ivyr]

oh yes- very much so!!

 

[Deric Storm]

isn't a baby goat called a kid?

 

[Pitya Ivyr]

and yes Neb - baby goat - and yes sir

 

[Pitya Ivyr]

baby goat=a Kid

 

[Chase]

oh yes- very much so!!

Share a few things, off the top of your head?

 

[Pitya Ivyr]

Alrighty- 1. the dairy Research center does work on group housing calves as well as pain studies on dehorning. 2. Anhedonia studies show that calves will use a mechanical brushes to decrease the stress. 3. The Goat dairy has a robot feeder- which in turn runs day and night and feeds or pushes feed up in goat pens, and thus helps the owner to have more time to take care of the goats. 4. the goat dairy has a rotary parlor and can milk 40 goats at a time - they have 1100 goats approximately and they milk about 550 a day. they are milked 2x a day and also goats milk is very sweet- though warm it brings out the flavor more than drinking it cold.))