nanny goat
(also ‘nannie’, plural: ‘nanny goats‘; the male goat: ‘billy goat’ — for the right pronunciation of ‘nanny goat’, please click here)
a nanny goat suckling its kids
a full-grown female domestic goat
A female goat is also called a ‘doe’, just like a female deer, & a female goat under one year is called a ‘doeling’, and a male goat is called a ‘buck’ or ‘billy’, and the baby goat is called a ‘kid’. In some places, a female goat used to be called an ‘annie goat’, too!
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