she-goats

Rising with the morning star, she has milked the ewes and she-goats, sheared four sheep, prepared breakfast for the household.

Evan Eisenberg: Mary Christ 2008

You assert that your mothers had no commerce with he-goats, nor your fathers with she-goats.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

He accepted, notwithstanding, a pair of she-goats from Earnscliff, which fed on the moor, and supplied him with milk.

The Black Dwarf 2004

As the old man crept out of his little hut, his two she-goats came to meet him, and licked his hands in gratitude for the vegetables with which he supplied them from his garden.

The Black Dwarf 2004

His livestock multiplied; the two she-goats had each had twins, making seven in all about the place.

The Growth of the Soil 2003

The ewes had lived under the house, and a part was divided off for the he-goat, because the other people brought their she-goats to be covered by the he-goat.

Twilight in Italy 2003

During pregnancy ewes and she-goats get fatter and eat more; as is also the case with cows, and, indeed, with the females of all quadrupeds.

The History of Animals 2002

As a general rule the discharge from the bladder in the case of quadrupeds is thicker than it is in the human species, and this discharge with ewes and she-goats is thicker than with rams and he-goats; but the urine of the jackass is thicker than the urine of the she-ass, and the urine of the bull is more pungent than the urine of the cow.

The History of Animals 2002

With ewes and she-goats there are signs of menstruation in breeding time, just before the for submitting to the male; after copulation also the signs are manifest, and then cease for an interval until the period of parturition arrives; the process then supervenes, and it is by this supervention that the shepherd knows that such and such an ewe is about to bring forth.

The History of Animals 2002

The people that live on and about Mount Oeta take such she-goats as decline the male and rub their udders hard with nettles to cause an irritation amounting to pain; hereupon they milk the animals, procuring at first a liquid resembling blood, then a liquid mixed with purulent matter, and eventually milk, as freely as from females submitting to the male.

The History of Animals 2002