What about goats?

[dmccarty]

gspig,

Check out your state Agriculture Universities. They can have
a huge amount of info.

Here is an Ag website at NCSU.
<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/an_sci/extension/animal/meatgoat/ahgoats_index.html>http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/an_sci/extension/animal/meatgoat/ahgoats_index.html</A>

You want to know about goats? Have fun reading! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Hope this helps...
Dan

 

[tdenny]

tugokc,

I have a goat for the sole purpose of "brush-hogging". Now that I have a tractor and real brush hog the goat just can't keep pace. You asked if pygmy goats work on poison ivy. I've been told that pygmy goats are not brush eaters. Someone out here can and probably will disagree with this statement. Just what I heard.

 

[akman]

Wife just adopted our fourth "farm" animal. His name is Billy T. Kid. One year old Boer goat!

We don't plan on eating him, but our local "farm labor" seems very interested !

Tony

 

[DavidInNH]

This is my brother's idea of fun for "Durango", one of their goats. Stay tuned for the next picture.

 

[DavidInNH]

My nephew is taking a little tour with Durango.

 

[DavidH]

In order to keep my ag exempt I had to have animals on the property. I checked around and found out goats were the easiest to raise. My goats are mostly Boer. I've got one Billy and 25 nannies right now. The goats have kids once a year and about half have twins. I sell the males at a local auction at about six months and get about $50 a piece. I lost 15 goats in December to dogs and now have a guard llama to hopefully protect them. Goats are dumb, but are really easy to maintain.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Around here they use donkeys to protect animals from dogs and such. Donkeys don't hate much. But they will kill a dog in a heartbeat.

 

[Bird]

Wroughton_harv, lots of folks around here have donkeys, too, but beware. I got a young donkey gelding and put in with my goats. He could see a neighbor's donkeys off in the distance and paced back and forth like a caged lion for a couple of days wanting to get to those other donkeys. I guess he just got frustrated, but he attacked one of the nannies and broke her neck and while I was trying to catch him (and my wife trying to get the goats into the barn), he picked up a kid by one hind leg and was running from me carrying the kid (finally dropped it with no injuries). If I'd had a gun with me, I'd have shot that sucker, but needless to say, he promptly went to the auction.

And the neighbor had a jack and 4 jennys for several years in with his cattle. He decided it was a waste of feed so he sold them. Then when he lost several calves to coyotes, he bought another jack and jenny. He could not break that jack from chasing and attacking cows; finally gave him away.

I've also noticed quite a number of the goat ranchers around here have Great Pyrennies (is that the way you spell it?) dogs in with their goats.

 

[DAP]

Bird, if I let the CEO read your post, I will have to sell every toy I have! These pygmies finally just moved out of the dining room to their spot in the barn. Compared to them, I'm WAY down on the pecking post!

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Here's my four ZTR's (zero turn radius mowers). And they don't use gas, they make it.

Bill, Nan, Billy, and the toot is three weeks old and we call her Tennessee.