About Us
We're a couple of retired people living on a hobby farm, raising goats and chickens.
He's a retired radio and television engineer, in a wheelchair from multiple sclerosos and also an ostomate after bowel cancer
She's a former television host and tireless mother to our profoundly autistic adult son.
We first put the cameras up to show family, but decided that perhaps others would like to enjoy the antics of our goats as well, and we were right! Goatslive has been enjoyed from over 150 countries to date.
We have multiple cameras on the goats, so you can enjoy them wherever they are!
About The Goats
Rose and Violet came to our farm on August 29, 2015 after the death of Molly, and return of Joy-Joy *(see below)
Rose and Violet are sisters, born on April 19, 2015. They are a cross of the LaMancha and Alpine breeds of goat, but have the features mainly of the LaMancha. Of note, their very tiny ears
We are pleased to have found these two beauties. They fill a huge hole in our hearts after losing Molly. We will of course, love and spoil these two girls just like we have all of our goats in the past!
Where Are Molly and Joy-Joy?
Molly the goat, who we got in May of 2009, woke us up one morning crying in pain and bleeding from her back-side. Suspecting a urinary tract infection, our local vet came out and treated her for that, but after 3 days we decided to take her to the University of Florida Veterinary College, a 2 hour drive North. Testing found her to have a large tumor in her uterus. Surgery on August 24th, 2015 found that the tumors had spread throughout her organs. There was nothing the doctors could do to save her so we made the very difficult decision to allow the surgeon to put Molly to sleep. Joy-Joy, Molly's 1/2 sister was still here of course, but she is a very aggressive goat and we feared that she would injure any other goat we brough home. It was decided that in her best interest, she would go back to the farm where we got her. She was returned on August 26th, 2015 and lived a happy life until September of 2019 when she passed away from congestive heart failure at 10 years old.
Terms of Service
Goatslive.com is a non commercial, hobby web site. You are welcome to enjoy our site's content at your own risk. Feel free to make screen grabs of cute goat moments if you'd like, just credit goatslive.com if you use it anywhere.
Privacy / Cookie Policy
Your unique IP address is collected in our server logs. All web sites collect this data. We use this information to help us get to know you better, as it roughly tells us where you are located. Further, we can use your IP address to block users who become abusive or offensive to other chatters.
We also collect your username and password that you provided us, to access our chat server. A cookie is set when you are logged into chat. This cookie contains your chat preferences that you set in the chat control panel.
Our video hosting company, Twitter, Youtube and any other external applications found on our site may collect personal information, but we have no access to it.
Contact Us!
If you are having a goat emergency, please call your local vet! That said, we'd be happy to help if we can.
Chat With Us!
Unlike many live streams, we like to interact with our users and are happy to answer questions relating to our goats!
We use the following chat services♦ Twitter - we monitor the feed constantly
♦ Mastodon - we monitor the feed constantly
♦ Guest Chat - Our feature rich chat server, Chat with us as a guest.
♦ Premium Chat - Our chat server, with camera controls! (Invitation only)
We reserve the right to kick out trolls or anyone misbehaving! Be civil and we'll all get along just fine!
Questions?
Some simple rules regarding our chat service
1) Please keep chats directed towards goats and related topics.
2) Meet up with friends here, but take non site related chat to another service.
3) When posting images, please do not hot link to images on the web you do not own! You are welcome to hot link to images from your own site however.
4) We allow users to post links, but please only post links of interest to the group, IE: goats only!
5) Topics and links banned from our site include but not limited to:
♦ Politics - It gives us an headache!
♦ Religion - We are daily, Bible studying Christians. Worship who or what you want, we are not your judge. Be respectful and we will return that respect.
♦ Sexuality- Be what you want, we don't care. It's not a topic for our chat. Let's talk about goats!
♦ Any Abuse - Abuse directed at us or other viewers will cause you to be banned from our chat room.
The purpose of chat, is to chat! Try and remember to log out before you leave our site. Inactive chatters will be automatically logged out after 60 minutes of inactivity. Of course, if you're still here, just log back in!
We reserve the right to delete any post, and to ban any user for any reason!
Thank you for understanding. We want GoatsLive.com to be a happy, kid-friendly place for people to watch and enjoy our goats!
Camera Control Information
Premium chat users, have the ability to change between our cameras if they find themselves looking at a video stream with no goats in it!
Feel free to switch camera shots if you don't see a goat, but understand that it can take up to a minute before you see the video change. It's best to refresh your video feed before you change camera shots.
The cameras are set up as follows:
Camera 1 - Main camera, usually pointed at the deck.
Camera 2 - Deck camera
Camera 3 - Goat House LEFT - If it's raining, that's where they'll be!
Camera 4 - Goat House RIGHT - If it's raining, that's where they'll be!
Camera 5 - Deck from the opposite side of cameras 1 and 2
Camera 6 - Rear of the pen
Camera 7 - Grooming table, Front gate
Camera 8 - East side of the pen, along the fence line where they like to lay down
Camera 9 - Rear of the pen, opposite of Camera 6
Camera 10- Along the West side of the pen and deck
Camera 11- Salad Bar, where they eat
Camera 12- Rehab / Time-Out pen
Remember that you are controlling the cameras for everyone watching, *(often hundreds of people!) not just your own feed, so please use the feature responsibly
For select active users, at our discretion, we can provide an @goatslive.com email
If you are having problems with our email interface, please contact us in private chat or at our regular email address for assistance
Donations / Gifts
We are often asked if we accept donations, or if viewers can send
gifts. We are grateful for your kindness, but ask that you consider one
of the following instead:
1) Donate to your local Humane Society! In the current economy they need all the help they can get.
2) Donate to your local farm animal rescue group. There are many abandonded farm animals that need our help.
3) Volunteer to work a few hours helping the dogs, cats, goats and horses at your local rescue shelter
If you wish, you can donate in the name of goatslive.com
Doing any of the above would mean a great deal to both us, and the animal groups you'd be helping!
Local to us, they rescue abandoned and neglected farm animals
Buttercups SanctuaryNear Kent, in the UK, they care for almost 100 goats, and allow animal behaviorists to do research on their animals!
The Belmont GoatsA wonderful herd of goats, in the middle of Portland, OR. They are a great educational resource for the surrounding area!
About our Store
We use Cafe Press to offer some goat related stuff. The products come from Cafe Press, not us.Our Cafe Press prices are the lowest possible as we do not add any profit to the base price. If you have problems with any product purchased, we can't help. All we did was design the graphics that are printed!
What's With the Advertising?
Live video is hosted by an outside company. We have no control over the ads you might see in the video, they come from that company. Sadly, we see no money from those ads.
Watching From Your Phone or Tablet
Watching from your Android or Apple phone or tablet
Our website is HTML5 compliant with most tablets and phones, and all of our site elements will auto-resize to fit your screen! Our Main page however, on those devices might look better if you select the "Vertical" layout selection under the video feed.
Help and Questions
Feel free to contact us if you have any questions or comments about goatslive.com using the email address listed below.
Links We've Mentioned
We encourage you to visit the following sites that we enjoy and support
etrailer.comThis is the wonderful company we purchase all of our trailer building parts from!
The Belmont GoatsA wonderful herd of goats, in the middle of Portland, OR. They are a great educational resource for the surrounding area!
ASAP Animal Clinic and RescueSpecializing in small dog rescue for West Central Florida!
A Wonderful Goat Blog in JapanA beautiful small farm where all the buildings are log-cabin style construction
Jeffers LivestockWhere we get the majority of our goat supplies
The Goat SpotA great forum about everything pertaining to goats.
We Use Linux
All of our computers, both for personal use and to bring you GoatsLive.com are running Linux!
Dump Windows, forget the high priced other company and treat yourself to the open-source goodness of Linux! It's free, it's easy to use, and it works!
