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[fidowanttobe]

I am still laughing at your comment! You should tell us how you REALLY feel !! I'd love to hear the reason for all this emotion. :fiery:

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.

 

[two_bit_score]

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.

Not even cabrito?

 

[Diggin It]

They are not stupid, quite the opposite,

No, they're stupid. Just plain stupid. They'll stick their head through the fence and get stuck by the horns. They can't figure out how to un-do what they just did. Then when you try to get them out, you have to be careful they don't yank the wrong way and take your finger with them. Then when you finally get them freed, sometimes by cutting the fence wire ... what do they do? Run across the field and stick their head through the other fence.

 

[cqaigy2]

Aren't they referred to as Nannies and Billies?

I've seen the neighbor's goats. I'll pass. Stupidest things on the planet.

They're smart enough to know which plant you really want to keep and or most expensive.

 

[strantor]

I am still laughing at your comment! You should tell us how you REALLY feel !! I'd love to hear the reason for all this emotion. :fiery:

As a child I was assigned the task of "goat mediator." My evil stepmother (not an exaggeration. She was legitimately an evil person), wanting to wear a reputation as someone with a big heart for animals like a new fashion, took in strays and unwanted animals and made me care for them. She took in 3 old ornery boer goats from some person and then a while later a batch of 4 young, barely weened goats. She thought it made sense to keep them together in the same paddock. I had to stand out there with the goats after I fed them, to keep the old bullies from running off the young ones from the feed. Never mind that they were just as likely to butt me to the ground as the baby goats. She would stand on the porch and manically bounce between nagging at me about letting one goat push another, and witch cackling when I would take an unsuspecting rear assault and eat dirt. One day I had my fill of it and started fighting back; tackled one of those b-holes and just started raining a hail of punches into its tender belly as she screamed bloody murder from the porch in her housecoat, calling to my dad to get his psychotic animal abuser son off her goat. It only took a couple more of those episodes before I was unceremoniously relieved of goat duty.

 

[strantor]

Not even cabrito?

it tastes like goats smell, so nah. And that goes doubly for goat's milk.

 

[gsganzer]

Our neighbor has some dwarf nigerian goats. They keep about a dozen nannies on the front pasture and a billy on the back pasture, with a fence between them.

One night the billy got loose and in with the nannies. About 5 months later, nearly to the day, all the nannies gave birth. That was one busy billy that night!! I can just envision him that next morning, stretched out on the grass smoking a cigarette.

 

[dodge man]

Years ago I did some land surveying for someone who was going to make big money making goat cheese. He must have had 100 full grown goats and what looked like a 1000 little ones. Running everywhere, out on the road, what a mess. Several of them looked like inbred mutants. He never made any goat cheese and the bank repossessed his goats.

 

[grsthegreat]

Years ago we had a woman that lived near us, who was an artist and raised goats...lots of goats. One day we had a huge neighborhood get together, to introduce everyone new to the area. Not knowing who this lady was my wife asked her her name....the name didnt register so my wife, being her ever so tactful self, asked her where she lived. She described her 20 acre place, and the wife said “Oh, your the goat lady”. That set her off, she insisted everyone refer to her as the artist, not the goat lady. While everyone was discussing this, old stupid me piped up and said, Its a good thing you dont raise pigs. (Ie pig lady)

She never talked to either of us again till she moved. Some people have no sense of humor.

 

[beowulf]

Wellllllll, I sort of like goats. We started with them about 2 years ago with the idea that they would make the property more fire safe. They are fenced in in the area behind the house on about 3 acres. They do a great job taking down the weeds and grass and bushes and more. We live in the central California foothills, so there's that.

Beyond that, we really enjoy them - have 12, know all their names and personalities, and find them entertaining. A bonus is that the grandkids love them as well. I have to agree with many of the comments about goats though. My observations:

-they will stick their heads in where they do not belong and once stuck it is really difficult to get them out.
-they are curious about everything and consider everything to be their personal business - don't try to get any work done if they have access to where you are working.
-they eat a lot of different things but they also have different tastes - some love every kind of fruit, banana peels, and tomatoes, a few won't eat the same things.
-if you drop a piece of fruit or whatever and pick it up and try to give it to them they will not - just will not - eat it.
-they are extremely friendly, will climb on you and a lot of fun to be around, especially when they are babies.
-my daughter will walk them like you would walk a dog and go on short hikes (though not all of them are manageable this way).
-they do not attract flies like our cows do.
-if you open a gate they will all be there to get out, though they come back in easily.
-they will enter any door or building they can get into, including car doors

So far they have not escaped - we have hog fencing around most of their area, and chain link fencing around the rest. Anyway, even though they require a bit of work they provide laughs just about every day. The trouble they cause is a small price to pay for the enjoyment we get.

BTW - we have mostly Nigerian Dwarf goats, one pigmy, and two nubians. The prices Eddie recites seem about right for this area as well though I have seen some more elaborate goat farms asking much more for certain goats.

Finally - when we went to pick up one of the baby Nigerian Dwarf goats, the owner handed him to us saying he liked to sleep in the house on a cat bed, loved car rides and loved to watch cartoons. True story. We bought him anyway.