Farm workers Benito and Guiseppe d'Angelo (22 and 25) confessed to the crime at a court in Cagliari last week.
The pair, who worked on a farm near Castelsardo, in the north of the island, pleaded guilty to a range of bestiality-related crimes involving a female goat called Isabella.
They were caught when their employer, farmer Martin Duchesni, returned unexpectedly from a trip to the local market - where he has a stall selling cheese and other dairy products.
'I entered the farmhouse and was making myself a cup of coffee when I heard strange noises and creaks coming from upstairs,' Duchesni told the stunned courtroom.
'I thought it could be thieves, so I quickly picked up a threshing flail and crept quietly up the stairs.'
In the farmhouse main bedroom, the shocked farmer discovered the brothers in the act of doing unmentionable acts to the goat.
'I didn't know what to say,' he added. 'I just couldn't believe it. There was Benito with his trousers round his ankles. The goat was on the bed and Guiseppe was sort of underneath her.
'In a way, I wanted to just pretend I hadn't seen anything, but then I saw the pleading look in Isabella's eyes and I knew I had to do something.'
'Goat sodomy is a very serious crime,' added county prosecutor Carlo Sansimi. 'The fact that it was, in this case, a female goat provides no defence.'
Sentencing will be carried out next week.
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