[Jacob-list] docking tails

[Penelope]

At 16:30 4/26/02, Chovhani wrote:
>We don't dock, but not necessarily for the "right' reasons. I'm with Thom 
>on this. They were born with tails. I also don't disbud my goats. 
>Obviously we shear and we castrate! But generally speaking we try to 
>follow nature's wisdom here, within reason.

         We don't dock or disbud either.  My phrasing is that I don't 
modify the animals for my own connivance, although I will do things for 
their health and to keep the population under control.  So I spay, neuter 
(indoor pets), sheer, castrate,  trim hooves, and don't keep roosters.  We 
don't declaw, clip ears or tails on any animals, don't trim beaks, etc.  I 
like the way the tails look, and I like the horns on the goats (and of 
course the Jacobs) - as well as finding them very useful as handles when I 
need to move a goat.

>I also grow everything organically and use herbs instead of 
>pharmaceuticals. I MAY be an extremist.

         Okay, you're possibly more extreme than I am -- we grow 
organically, but I do use pharmaceuticals.  :-)  I'm very radical on some 
things (typed as I sit nursing my 19 month old home birthed daughter no 
less), a little less so on others.
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Penelope Jacob  pcj at efn.org
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