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Old Christmas Trees Given To Icelandic Goats And Horses, As A Treat
As the holiday season nears an end, and people begin to toss out their Christmas trees before the entire floor is littered with needles, people in the Icelandic countryside know one thing that a lot of Reykjavík-area Icelanders might not: goats and…
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Christmas Trees Fed To Horses And Goats
Some enterprising Icelanders have found a good use for all Christmas trees, now that the Christmas season has officially concluded: feed them to livestock. Vísir reports that six horses in the south Icelandic village of Þorlákshöfn are living their best lives, enthusiastically…
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Stricter Measures On Imported Semen Endanger Future Of The Icelandic Goat
Efforts to have a backup stock of Icelandic goats in the US, in case anything should befall the population in Iceland, has run into a bureaucratic snag: USDA regulations on imported semen. WGME out of Maine ran an extensive article about The…
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Icelandic Goats: Meet and Greet This Wednesday
By now you have probably already seen some Icelandic sheep roaming around the countryside, but have you seen any Icelandic goats? Your answer is probably a “no”, and that’s because Icelandic goats have been on the verge of extinction for years. Worry…
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Words of Interest: The Plight of the Icelandic Goat
“Fara í geitarhús að leita ullar” literally means to go to the goat house to gather wool. It’s used in situations where you’re looking for something in the wrong place. The Icelandic goat has been native to the country for over 1000…
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Man Brings Live Goat To Site Of Immolated Christmas Goat
A goat farmer concerned about the status of Iceland’s cloven-hooved population brought a live goat to IKEA in Garðabær to draw attention to their plight. DV reports that Gunnar Júlíus Helgason, a goat farmer from Vatnsleysuströnd, arrived at IKEA last Saturday with…
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The Goats At Háafell Are G.o.a.t.
When Jóhanna Bergmann Þorvaldsdóttir’s goat farm ran into financial difficulties a couple of years ago, it looked like the end of the line for the Icelandic goat. Nearly one year on from a successful crowdfunding campaign to save the farm, the Háafell…
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News In Brief: Early August
Don’t believe the hype. Despite plenty of news coverage detailing dangerous stunts by tourists in the past few months, Icelanders still love you guys! According to a new poll from Market and Media Research, 80% of Icelanders feel good about tourists in…
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Goats Used For Gardening Work
The town of Reykjanesbær has finally found a solution for out-of-control vegetation, as goats accomplish what no machine could. RÚV reports that the goats (shown above) managed to clear out a patch of thick and fast-growing plant life that has been the…
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Ten Million Raised For Goat Farm
The general public has shown an outpouring of love and support to save an Icelandic goat farm from closure. RÚV reports that the beleagured Háafell goat farm in Borgarfjörður has received a tremendous amount of support from people around the world. The…
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Time’s Ticking For The Icelandic Goat
Goat farmer Jóhanna Bergmann Þorvaldsdóttir has launched a new IndieGoGo campaign to save her family farm, Háafell (also known as the Icelandic Goat Conservation Center), from auction next month, and all of its 400 goats from slaughter. “The family is facing foreclosure…