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The Saanen goat gets its name from the Saanen valley in Switzerland.

This is a white goat, which gets its name from the Saanen valley in Switzerland, where selective breeding of dairy goats has taken place for several hundred years. 

The goat is a browser, eating hedges, paper, your clothes, if you let them (!), as well as grass.

They are difficult to recognise apart from sheep. But the tail of the goat sticks up and the sheep’s down. Also the goats horns grow up and back, whereas the sheep’s grow out sideways and back. Male goats wear beards. And the forehead of the goat is convex (bulging outwards), but the sheep’s is concave.

Goats are from the Cattle (Bovidae) family, which chew the cud and are cloven hoofed so are classified in the Bible as “clean” animals, that God allowed man to eat after the Great Flood. Noah would have taken 7 pairs of the family into the Ark, hence the huge diversity of species that have developed since then. They all have 4 stomachs and no teeth on top in front.