Rare Goat

Excerpted from 'The Goat Farmer' magazine:

RUSTLERS MISTAKENLY EAT RARE GOAT

Hong Kong - Goat rustlers in western China mistakenly ate a rare animal worth 30 000 yuan (about R25 000), a news report said on Thursday.The thieves thought the animal they stole in Donying, Shandong province, was a common goat but it was in fact an expensive Boer goat popularised by the Dutch and reared for its high quality meat.

Twenty eight of the goats worth a total of $18 000 were stolen from six livestock farms in Shadong province between May and August, according to the Hong Kong edition of the China Daily.All were recovered except for the one which the gang of thieves said they mistakenly cooked and ate thinking it was a common goat, the newspaper said.