I have seen one Bodhran-maker selling them with a double layer of deer-skin - he rated the sound. Very elastic they was. I last saw him doing Bodhran workshops at Chippenham FF (UK - 1998??) called himself King something or other.

There was a minor fashion for greyhound due to the surfeit of dead dogs in Ireland. You can play at race speeds. ho ho. The greyhound was deemed agricultural and attracted EU subsidies so they bred them to excess and killed the slow ones.

BUT I prefer the original goat. Which just goats to show........ no kidding.

I'll get my coat.