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Topic: Island of Goats

	San Clemente Island Goat Association Feral Page
		Some San Clemente Island goat owners are fortunate enough to be able to let their goats run free on hundreds of acres.
		On San Clemente Island, when most of the goats had been exterminated and there was abundant space and food for the rest, birth rates were 50% twins, 40% single births, and 10% triplets.
		The hardiness of the goats is very apparent in most situations, but the enviroment on your land may be different than the enviroment they were bred to endure—keep a tight eye on what's happening with your herd until it's very well established.
	www.scigoats.org /feral.htm (388 words)

	Guadalupe Island, Mexico, Isla Guadalupe Photos, Phillip Colla Photography
		Guadalupe Island lies 150 miles offshore of the Pacific coast of Mexico, roughly south of San Diego and WNW of Punta Eugenia on the Baja California peninsula.
		This large (98 square mile, 22 mile long) island is environmentally isolated, surrounded as it is by deep water, some of which attains depths of 12,000' between the island and the mainland.
		Goats introduced by sealers and failed ranching enterprises have wiped the island clean of most vegetation, including most of the pines and cypress.
	www.gygis.com /guadalupe_island.html (798 words)

	Round Island - Île Ronde
		Round Island is the remnant of an extinct, eroded and now partly submerged volcanic cone situated about 22 kilometres (15 miles) to the North East of Mauritius, this island is an ecological treasure house.
		Their browsing was largely responsible for the total loss of the island’s natural hardwood scrub-forest, the severe degradation of the last example of a unique palm association, as well as the loss through erosion of around 90% of the island’s soil.
		Goats were removed in 1979 and in 1986 Don Merton and team eradicated the rabbits, thus saving this unique plant species along with ~15 other Red Data Book plants & animals in their native home.
	www.encyclopedia.mu /Nature/Geography/Islets/RoundIsland (279 words)

	Plants Thats Goats Won't Eat - Goats and Nutrition - GoatWorld.Com
		A goat that is being fed a proper, well balanced diet, complete with all the vitamins and minerals necessary to meet their daily nutritional requirements is going to be less likely to eat plants that he or she should not, including any one of the variety of poisonous plants.
		Albeit, the majority of these island dwelling goats are wild, placed in the days of yesteryear when Spanish mariners left them behind, hoping to return and use them for a source of milk and meat.
		Younger goats however, are still in the process of forming memory triggers and tastes, and may prove to sample a large variety of your landscape before they learn.
	www.goatworld.com /articles/nutrition/goatswonteat.shtml (1295 words)

	Islander Shark Expeditions - Guadalupe Island
		The island is environmentally isolated, surrounded as it is by deep water (300-3000 feet) and reaches depths of 12,000 feet between the island and the mainland.
		Goats brought to the island by sealers and failed ranches have destroyed most of the vegetation, picking the island clean, including most of the pines and cypress.
		Guadalupe Island is an amazing place for many folks and critters, geologists, botanists, biologists, elephant seals, great white sharks...not to mention those goats that have done their part to help devastate the vegetation of the island.
	www.dreamwirkz.com /islander/guadalupe.htm (528 words)

	Friends of Cocos Island Foundation - Biota of the Island
		There are 100 species of birds on the island, 13 of which are resident, meaning that they reproduce on the island, and the remainder are either regular or occasional visitors.
		The impact of the cats, goats and deer has not been studied, but it is assumed that their impact is less than that of the other two species.
		The growth of tourism on the island, especially in the ocean area, is affecting some of the outstanding natural characteristics of the scenery, ecosystems and marine organisms.
	www.cocosisland.org /english/island/biota/fauna.htm (808 words)

	Discovering the Blue Island
		The numerous fossil remains of that animal found on Capri confirm that it was once the Island of the Wild Boars, and not the island of the Goats, as the Latin derivation would seem to indicate.
		Returned to the ownership of the Duchy of Naples, the island was raided by the Saracens in the sixth and seventh centuries, and was dominated during various periods in the years that followed by the Longobards, the Normans, the Angevins, the Aragonese and, finally, the Spanish.
		The island experienced a period of renewed good fortune in the 17th and 18th centuries, in coincidence with the great political and artistic upsurgence of Naples, and thanks to the existence of an active church diocese, as well as the privileges granted the island, first by the Spanish and then by the Bourbons.
	www.premier.net /~Italy/island.htm (706 words)

	New Zealand Birds, Mokoia Island, birding, birdwatching (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mokoia Island is a special place 2km off-shore, which has become home for some of New Zealand's most endangered species and is one of the most important wildlife refuges in the Bay of Plenty.
		Goats were introduced into a fenced off area to control flberry which had colonised the cleared land on the island.
		Although Mokoia is still an island refuge, it is special in that it is a mainland island reserve and not an offshore island.
	nzbirds.com /Mokoia.html (701 words)

	Lake Martin Islands
		Goat Island is nestled north of Martin Dam.
		Boaters often cruise the waters along the island in hopes of catching a glimpse of the island goats.
		The Island is approached by few because of what its name implies; however, popular knowledge declares that the name refers more to the overgrown appearance of the island than to its inhabitants.
	www.lakemartin.com /Islands.asp (426 words)

	Ford Island (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Hawaiian island of Oahu is one of the most famous vacation destinations in the world.The "aloha" is Hawaii's special hospitality which welcomes visitors with its ocean vistas, golden beaches and perpetual spring like climate.
		Before the nineteenth century Ford Island was known to Hawaiians as Moku'ume'ume, which literally translates as "island of the game." The "game" was limited to lesser chiefs and childless commoners and began around large bonfires where the chief in charge paired couples for the night.
		The island's place in history was forever assured on December 7,1941, when the Japanese attack on Pearl harbor focused on the ships of the Pacific Fleet moored around Ford Island.
	www2.hawaii.edu /~turner/oahu/fordisland.html (579 words)

	GNTO-Greek Islands-Karpathos-The People & the Place (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Karpathos is the most southern island of the Dodecanese and the second largest, with a surface area of 301 sq.km.
		North of Karpathos lies the islet of Saria, or the "island of goats", as the only inhabitants are wild goats and sheep.
		The 6,000 hospitable inhabitants of Karpathos are occupied mainly with the cultivation of fruit trees and grapevines which are in abundance due to the island's mild climate.
	www.hri.org /infoxenios/english/dodecanese/karpathos/people.html (216 words)

	AUCKLAND ISLAND GOATS
		Goats are reported to have been liberated in at least ten places on the Auckland Island group in the second half of the nineteenth century as food for castaways, with at least one liberation in 1865 on the main Auckland Island.
		We feel that these goats warrant further study, both as a source of new genetic material and as a physiologically adapted population that have evolved over a 100 years in a harsh climate.
		They concluded that the remnant flock on Auckland Island was sufficiently important to warrant protection, and that the safest plan was to preserve the resource, with its own natural random mating and response to an environment free from man’s influence, on Auckland Island.
	www.rarebreeds.co.nz /auckgoats.html (1083 words)

	San Clemente Island Goat Association Breeding Page
		For San Clemente Island goats, consider keeping a high buck-doe ratio, where the bucks are well-chosen from different bloodlines.
		As the hardiness of San Clemente goats is one of their strengths, please consider this in your breeding strategy.
		If goats are transferred between farms, please keep biosecurity in mind, and discuss all health aspects and concerns before mixing goats.
	www.scigoats.org /breeding.htm (740 words)

	Sheep, goats, cattle, pigs, rabbits: Southern Islands biodiversity action plan
		Sheep are grazers, and prefer pasture, while goats (as browsers) prefer forest or scrub, especially in rocky upland areas where sheep and deer cannot venture.
		Goats were kept as domestic animals around many settlements, and may have once been feral on Native Island and the Ernest Islands near the Kilbride Homestead.
		Goats and rabbits are still kept on a domestic basis around the settlement, and pose a small but real risk.
	www.doc.govt.nz /templates/MultipageDocumentPage.aspx?id=39667 (820 words)

	San Clemente Island Goat Association Dairy Page
		Although San Clemente Island goats have not been "bred up" to today's dairy goat standard, there is no reason why they should not have the potential to be good milkers.
		We're seeking breeders who are interested in milking their San Clemente Island goats to help us survey the breed from a dairy standpoint.
		Milk your goat when the kids have been off of her for a few hours.
	www.scigoats.org /dairy.htm (464 words)

	Directory of open access journals
		Activity of goats is an important element for the application of new techniques of reproductive control, allowing the improvement of the regional products of goat origin.
		In June, the transition to sexual season was observed and the percentage of cyclic goats increases from 5 %, at that time, to 60% in August, reaching 100% in early September.
		The induction of ovarian activity in all goats by the presence of bucks (male effect) at the end of June suggests that it could be the transition period to the breeding season.
	www.doaj.org /doaj?func=abstract&id=168208&recNo=12&toc=1 (644 words)

	Island Goats Sailing Society "Long Live the Goats" Chicago Yacht Club Station
		We Goats do not just graze and drink together, but are involved in many activities to perpetuate and commemorate the Chicago Mackinac Race.
		The most characteristic quality of Island Goats is their sense of humor about the seeming absurdity of the many situations encountered in getting to Mackinac Island each July.
		Goat Anne Juell expressed it well when she said "Friendship is the most important part of the racing.".
	www.islandgoats.org (179 words)

	Breeds of Livestock - San Clemente Goats
		The U.S. Navy became responsible for the island in 1934.
		San Clemente goats are relatively small, close to the maximum standard for dwarf breeds.
		Although the island population once exhibited a wide range of colors and color markings, the goats are now mostly red or tan with fl markings.
	www.ansi.okstate.edu /breeds/goats/sanclemente/index.htm (245 words)

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