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[reb]

We raised goats for several years. The wife milked for a while, but that got old. The taste of the milk seemed to vary with the goat. The milk from one was difficult to tell from cow's milk. We raised them primarily for the meat. Figured they were easier to handle than cattle. We fenced them in with 6' chain link. Never had an escape problem if we used a wire along the bottom.

 

[TractorGuy]

Years ago my neighbor had them on the property I own now. They stayed inside the 4" field fence pretty well.

I have wondered if you could keep them inside a couple strands of hot wire. I have an area I wouldn't mind sticking some in to let them eat it down but I don''t want to invest in permanent fence to keep them. I would just have them for a while and find new homes for them when they achieve the desired results.

 

[two_bit_score]

Years ago my neighbor had them on the property I own now. They stayed inside the 4" field fence pretty well.

I have wondered if you could keep them inside a couple strands of hot wire. I have an area I wouldn't mind sticking some in to let them eat it down but I don''t want to invest in permanent fence to keep them. I would just have them for a while and find new homes for them when they achieve the desired results.

Maybe you need to Rent-A-Goat?

 

[Fuddy1952]

I didn't read all replies but hoping for some goat knowledgeable input here.
A couple years ago a great neighbor passed and his place was sold to millennials with kids...nice, professional but very stupid people ..."wannabe" farmers who started a zoo, we've seen everything but elephants there.
Unfortunately part of their property is within 60 ft. of our house.
We want to be good neighbors but I finally texted them (that's the only way millennials communicate) about a bunch of #!%&* dogs barking non-stop. They started a kennel.
They relocated dogs down to a barn so barely hear noise now.
Goats!...they get about six nannies, pasture them near our house...no real problems, except a few weeks ago maybe 10 more and then a Billy.
NOW I get to the problem, and what can I do? The idiots made a small fenced in area just for the Billy close to our house!!! It's in the pen alone, and hollers all day long! ...Loud! It sounds just like an old man with his nuts in a vice.
I've never heard of anyone doing that, and why? I dread texting them again.
Curious what others would do. Thanks.

 

[two_bit_score]

>>>>> Loud! It sounds just like an old man with his nuts in a vice.<<<<<

If you could get a recording and play it at high amplification right at their house they might get the idea.

 

[strantor]

Years ago my neighbor had them on the property I own now. They stayed inside the 4" field fence pretty well.

I have wondered if you could keep them inside a couple strands of hot wire. I have an area I wouldn't mind sticking some in to let them eat it down but I don''t want to invest in permanent fence to keep them. I would just have them for a while and find new homes for them when they achieve the desired results.

The result will be a goat that a got a hot wire wrapped around his head and started running like a pinball in every direction including straight up, and kept running until the pain stopped. Which either means it's dead, has 5 miles of wire wrapped around its head like a turban, or both. And all your other goats are gone, eating the flowers of your meanest neighbor.

 

[Frankenkubota]

I have a deep hatred of goats. They say hot dogs are made up of all the buttholes and other nasties left over from the butcher's floor, well goats are the same. Goats are made of all the unused bad attitudes, spitefulness, disgusting habits, and general foulness that were left over after the creation of puppies and bunnies. There's a reason the satanists use a goat head as their symbol.

Now that痴 just funny, not the damage, the passion!

I love people who feel strongly about an issue and are not afraid to say so.

I regularly get offers to take animals, mostly horses but goats are high on that list,

As much as I love animals, and I do, I won稚 have them. I couldn稚 eat one if it meant starving, I think that痴 the truth but way too much work, each to his own.

In NC we have this invasive vine called Kudzu?. Another gift for the east. It痴 been eating out forests the entire 40 years I been here.

I know a guy who claims he rents his goats to the DOT or someone to keep the highway exit areas cleaned up. He has the huge portable fence he must erect every time.

Closest I知 gonna get to that is a guinea hen. I will build them a nice coop and that痴 it!

 

[NorTracNY]

My neighbors had goats, sheep, and a cow. Sheep milk was the tastiest, but they were the hardest to milk.

If you think sheep are hard to milk, you should try milking an almond! I don't know how people even know which ones are females. :laughing:

 

[GeneV]

If you think sheep are hard to milk, you should try milking an almond! I don't know how people even know which ones are females. :laughing:

I milked those before!

Alls you need is almonds, a blender, and water...and sugar and vanilla extract to taste.

 

[TractorGuy]

The result will be a goat that a got a hot wire wrapped around his head and started running like a pinball in every direction including straight up, and kept running until the pain stopped. Which either means it's dead, has 5 miles of wire wrapped around its head like a turban, or both. And all your other goats are gone, eating the flowers of your meanest neighbor.

I guess I won't try that approach.