06/12/2022
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A goat has front teeth only in its lower jaw; the upper jaw has a hard, tough pad called a dental palate.
When a kid is born, it often has its first two front milk teeth and sometimes the first four have already broken through. By its third month, all the milk teeth have broken through. At about 15 months, the adult teeth begin to appear, and by the time the goat is 3 ยฝ to 4 years old, it has all its adult teeth. An adult goat has 12 molars in the upper and lower jaws and eight front teeth in the lower jaw.
A goat with all its adult teeth is โaged.โ When the goat is 5 years old, the front incisors begin to spread apart and wear down, and eventually they break off and fall out. A goat with missing front teeth is โbroken mouthed.โ When all the teeth are gone, the goat is a โgummer.โ
It is possible to tell the age of a young goat by looking at its teeth, but once it is more than 5 years old, the wear and condition of the teeth may vary according to its diet and the location in which it lives. A coarse diet wears teeth down faster than a soft diet.
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