Crazy idea about goats

[Gary_C]

And don't get downwind of a Billy Goat. 

We had a Billy for a short time in a pasture across from a church camp and he preferred their neatly mowed lawn to the pasture. They never complained once, even though he smelled pretty bad. Bet they were happy when we sent that creature back to it's owner.

[Buzz-sawyer]

My friend told me to tie them up like a doggie and let them eat in a circle...then move them to a new spot.Thus avoiding a bunch of goat related hassles.
What is a good breed of goat? The free kind?

[leweee]

My friend told me to tie them up like a doggie and let them eat in a circle...then move them to a new spot.Thus avoiding a bunch of goat related hassles.
What is a good breed of goat? The free kind?

Beware of tethering goats....if they get loose with the tether attached, they can hang themselves....nieghbour gave up goats tethered.....too many hung themselves in his orchard....seems they just love apples.....not to mension valve stems on any implement parked with in range. Goat farming is for people that love a challenge....but not for the faint of heart

PS. if you have coyotes in the area you will need a donkey or mule to protect them

[Gary_C]

My wife's brother has a whole herd of goats across the river from you in Iowa. Must have 30 or more to keep the Multiflora Rose under control on his farm. He has quite a few "fainting goats." No kidding, when they feel threatened in any way, they just pass out and fall over.  Not a very good defense for predators but there must be safety in numbers as he doesn't seem to loose many.

He does not milk them, just raises young ones and lets them run in the pasture.

[UNCLEBUCK]

I bought a momma goat and a holstein bull calf and the calf got his daily milk supply from the goat and the calf ended up huge from goats milk even if he only had it for 6 weeks . Then the goat just hung out around the barnyard and really never was a burden at all . The goat had 2 baby goats a few years later and that was fun to watch the 2 little goats getting in trouble every day . You will have goats riding the log on your carriage when youre sawing . They dont seem to be afraid of anything . A few goats is fun

[etat]

I used to give em LA 200 when I first bought any back from a sale. I'd always follow it up with probius (I think that's how it is pronounced.  It is possible for large shots of antibiotics to shut down the microbes that helps goats digest food.  Especially if you feed a lot of grain. Make sure  you give it in a muscle and when you first  give it to em, you gonna think for a minute you've killed em dead.  For just a few seconds it'll about knock em off their feet.

Also a real sick one sometimes just a little shot of red cell, by mouth will bring em back to life.  When it does work, and sometimes it doesn't, it gives em strength back immediately.  

The first goat I ever owned was Old Bob.  He was a MEAN one and we had us many many a fight.  Most times it was hard to say who won.  I think there's probably a story around here somewhere about him.  

Here's a few young ones out of a herd of mixed goats I had one time.

[UNCLEBUCK]

Sounds like Old Bob didnt like getting stuck with the needle ! 

[etat]

Nah, it would've took much more than a shot to knock ole bob off of his feet.


The saga of old Bob, the meanest goat I ever knew.

http://www.forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=4976.280

post number, 286, number 295, number 313, and number 345. 

[Roxie]

   Cowboy Bob has a friend that raises the fainting goats.  He has a game he just loves to play when folks new to the area stop by......he has a starting pistol that he fires (the goats all fall over in a faint) and he yells real loud "Ok honey, get the pot ready.  We've got meat for dinner now!"   
It sure does look like one shot killed about 15 goats! 

[Doc]

I like goats.......BAR-B-QUED!!!!

No better cookin than goat on a spit. Lean meat, and no worries about them jumping fences or eating the car.

Doc

[Kirk_Allen]

Be prepared Buzz because one day they will get loose and you will come out to find them on top of your car, your loader, your saw shed etc.

They love to climb!

[Ernie]

We had about 1500 Saanen milking goats as recipients for our Angora ET programme.  We milked about 150 to feed Angora kids.  They are easy to control with electric fences but can tell when the unit is off.  Our land gets too wet for their feet and no number of footbaths with copper or zinc sulphate seemed to keep the susceptible ones from getting foot rot- very smelly.  They really need rocks to climb on the keep their feet in good shape.

NEVER again

[Haytrader]

Buzz,

Boer goats are popular here. Seems to be a good market for them.
They say they are MEAT goats. Check this site out.
http://www.boer-show-goats.com/

ck,            

LA 200 is an antibiotic and kills bugs.
Probios is a probiotic and makes the good bugs do better. It is to be used INSTEAD of antibiotics.
No wonder it knocks them. The bugs don't know what to do...........    

[pigman]

You all have cost me a C- band sale. I was working on a deal with Buzz-sawyer on my old big dish. I think he was going to use the free programs to entertain the goats he was going to get. With all this negative talk on the goats he probably will change his mind on the dish. Buzz-Sawyer wrote
"I WISH I had one to use for its intended purpose.Swamp donkey got me interested in what is available for free on c band...Anyone in central/center US got a donor??? "
I think the goats would enjoy animal planet.    
Buzz may have a slightly different story on this, but what the heck it is my lie and I am sticking to it.

[Buzz-sawyer]

Thanks Haytrader..............

Pigman...
I been thinking through this whole GOAT FARMER thing,

and I am not sure if my IMAGE can take the strain.........

Will I have to let junk and trash pile up so high it retains the goats???

Will I have to start bathing LESS?

I dont know if I wanna be a goat farmer.........
NOBODY on the forum will associate with me ..........they will treat me like they are downwind from a BILLY GOAT!!!!!

ALL that just to have 1-2 goats...I dont think so