Goats are a versatile animal that have many benifical elements to your life.
You can start wih the obvious one
- Milk
- Meat
- Manure
- and the Browse (eat weeds+)
- Baby goats
Than you have the not so obvious
- Entertaining goats can do the funniest things sometimes
- Encourage you to think outside the box. Goats are escape artists so you need to get good at finding how they got out and than how to contain them 😉
- Company a goat can be very friendly depending on their personality like people some can be horrible so pick wisely.
- Great at pruning trees so you can easily walk under them, but be careful they also eat the bark and can ring bark a tree if left in the one spot too long.
Goats love to browse, which means eat anything above their shoulders which makes them more resistant to parasites than grazing animals unless they only have grass to eat.
We have Saanen goats which is a dairy breed of goat and we love to get fresh milk and have occasionally made cheese from it.