To ensure the safety of our volunteers and staff, we will not be holding this event this year (2020)
Last autumn, in the pouring rain, our brave team of over 100 volunteers and staff suceeded in rounding up 48 rather smelly goats, including 14 kids, for their health inspection - an important conservation task in our seasonal calendar. We even managed to find nine goats that eluded us last year.
Helping nature naturally
Every year, our Old English feral goats are guided into temporary pens on Ventnor Downs for their health check. We look at their teeth, give their hooves a clip, treat any health problems and catalogue them. We also tag and record any new kids (baby goats), then release the herd back on to the downs.