Great Orme Kashmiri goats … in Bournemouth

This is Hakim, a Kashmiri goat, all the way from The Great Orme, Llandudno (Wales). He arrived on West Cliff today, opposite The Savoy Hotel , with a few other ‘Boer goats’. He will have extremely long horns and looks quite different.

Apparently he gets on well with other goats, but is not used to humans, so hung around in the background.

Sunny day. Cleaned a.m. Went out in the afternoon for a long walk on the clifftop and back via town. Feeling pretty shattered now.

Watching Sky News ….

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BBC News 2021:-
“Mountain goats who roamed a Welsh seaside town have been split up, with some moved to England after numbers boomed during the pandemic.

The goats made headlines after venturing from the Great Orme into the town of Llandudno at the start of lockdown.
Now 30 will be moved to Bristol and Bournemouth to try to control numbers.

The Kashmiri goats have ventured down into the town for years when food is scarce in spring, rummaging through flower beds in search of something to eat.

However, numbers spiked when the pandemic meant contraceptive jabs could not be given to the goats as usual.

The goats have now been rounded up, with some given contraceptive injections to make sure the numbers in Llandudno remain stable, the council said.
The 19 female goats given a birth control hormone will stay in Llandudno.

A further 30 animals have been sent to Bristol and Bournemouth to be part of "conservation grazing projects.

The aim is for the goats to eat invasive and aggressive plant species, allowing rarer plants to grow through”