Advice on raising goats.

Posts : 4 Join date : 2011-02-28

I have begun researching proper livestock techniques for raising goats and came across this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGlnrtiig0I

However, I'm still unclear as to which goat breed it the best for close-quarter. Tips?

Posts : 14 Join date : 2009-01-10

Lostatsea3 wrote:: I have begun researching proper livestock techniques for raising goats and came across this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGlnrtiig0I

However, I'm still unclear as to which goat breed it the best for close-quarter. Tips?

Thank you Lostatsea3, that is helpful. There are fundamentally two kinds of goats -- one for milk and one for wool, plus the consideration of which breed is best for meat.

I think that it were a worthy goal to combine two or more breeds so that one resultant goat makes excellent milk, excellent wool, and excellent meat.

Here are the breedin standards for the American Dairy Goat Association:

http://adga.org/breed-standards

Here is a tutorial article about pickin "fibrous goats". The article says that they are also good for meat:

https://www.dummies.com/home-garden/hobby-farming/raising-goats/choosing-goat-breeds-for-fiber

This article is about goats for meat:

https://www.thespruce.com/choose-meat-goat-breeds-3016784