What do you do with YOUR goats ???

[TGreenhut]

~Pet
~Milk
~ Weed and brush control
~ 4-h

 

[poorboys]

Milk, Meat, Sell to 4-hers' and they are my friends.

 

[RamblingCowgirl]

Well the first time I had goats I was in 4-h, and they were dairy goats. Long sad story short, I had to sell them. Didn't know how much I missed em til I got around others...

Now my hubby to be & I have 3 dairy does {1 bred for march kidding yay!} and he is a natural goat lover, they faver him over me for now. We only have a tiny travle trailer on the place, no room for my sewing machin or anything really. So I'm staying with my parents until she is ready to milk...then I'll just have to live simple until the house is done. Good thing there will be a goat kid or kids to keep me from being bored We should have some reg Alpine bottle babys by then too.

They are pets, milkers, to breed & sell breeding stock. He wants to keep some wethers for meat, and from them I will keep or sell hides. And I'd love to show again.

If you love goats you should enjoy how we got them home http://theramblingcowgirl.wordpress.com/2011/11/15/got-goats-in-a-car/ my family is still talking about it

ETA: a working link

 

[77Herford]

I have 1 British Alpine Doe with twins, 1 French Alpine doe with twins and an adopted Saanen buck. 6 Nubian Wethers, 6 Boer Wethers and four Nubian does. I milk the Does, sell the wethers for meat and have sold all but two of the bucks born.

On my southern opperation I have 148 Boer does and 58 Kiko does with 6 Boer bucks and 4 Kiko bucks. This is my main meat op.

 

[breezy B ranch]

*Milk
*Pets

 

[autumnprairie]

I have 7 goats 1 boer buck, 2 boer does, 3 nubian/ alpines and 1 nubian/saanen
at the moment they are friends and breeding stock,
they will be
milk
friends
meat
breeding

 

[ragdollcatlady]

I have 5 nigerians and 1 nubian
I got 2 nigerians first, for pets but fell head over heels and am officially a goat junkie totally addicted! My son showed his nubian at the county fair last year and my daughter wants to show the nigerians this year.
They are
pets
milk
show
breeding stock/selling some offspring
I would like to use some for meat, but Nigerians are pretty small, so I don't know about that yet
Kat

 

[peachick]

after waiting several years hubby finally said.... why dont you find something that will take care of that field so i dont have to mow it anymore.

my goats are for field maintenance
and to make me smile

I also show them and breed them

 

[Mzyla]

Wow! Most everybody's goats are "lawn/brush maintainers"
My are mowing, pretty much everything else but brush and/or grass.
Their first choice for brushing is any paper they can find, any clothes, wires,,,,,too many to name it,,,,
but surely are not brushing diligently as yours!
Lucky you people!

 

[zzGypsy]

milk
meat
pets (ok, just one or two of them)
pasture restoration
weed patrol
poison ivy erradication
training my LGD pups
entertainment
pulling a cart
training my herding dogs

and at some point I may get angoras for fiber