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Started by Kbeitz, May 29, 2016, 06:42:29 PM

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Den Socling

Our local landfill has a herd of goats. I don't know where the first ones came from but there's now a bunch. At first there was a big stink (pun intended) because there wasn't supposed to be any livestock in the township. They got a variance and the goats have kept the weeds and bushes under control since then.

red

There was someone who advertised bringing goats to eat poison ivy vines . They also sold soap from the goats milk saying it would help heal poison ivy rash ?
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red

also www.citygrazing.com a San Francisco based goat landscaping company
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Hiway40frank

I have a hound dog that will run anything I put him on so my guess is a goat would be no problem. Anyone know if they eat wood and brush or just grass?

thecfarm

I have goats. And I really like them. I had them keep the brush down in a grown up pasture. Mine was not big on grass,but they loved the bushes that was  trying to grow there. Not talking about bushes a foot high either,even though I bet they would eat them,no more than 6 inches high.
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Dave Shepard

Goats prefer junk over "good" feed. My sister gave one of her goats a big block of alfalfa hay. It used it as a step stool to eat a bunch of maple leaves.
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Quote from: Czech_Made on June 03, 2016, 02:49:35 PM


It depends how good are your fences and how much spunk is in the particular goat.  Goats are like clever five year olds with permanent sugar high  ;D



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starmac

Do a little research all breeds of goats are not created equal, some breeds are much better at clearing brush than others, they will litterally trim everything that they can reach by standing on their hind legs.
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Hiway40frank

I think I need a goat... Big question 1 or 2?  A girl down the street has a few she makes soap with and I saw them yesterday and to me they seem like really big dogs. Lots of personality and they love human attention.

gspren

   Goats are herd animals and like company so get at least 2-3, get nannies (females). I raised goats for over 20 years and for ease of keeping liked the Boar or Boar cross breeds as they don't jump as much as some of the dairy breeds.
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sandhills

Goats are pretty big business around here right now, setting record high prices.  A guy has a pen full of them next to the sale barn I work at, I get a kick out watching him put them in everyday  :D.  They really don't seem that hard to handle but he does have good fence around them and he's a little burned out if you know what I mean so the human factor maybe figuring in a little.  I'll have to get a picture sometime, he just pulls a trailer in with a bale of hay on it and leaves it there, the goats will be up on the trailer, on top of the bale, and eating from the ground  :D.

starmac

I have a funny story about a cantankerous billy. 
When I was a kid we went to the sale barn s pretty often, once someone brought this huge billy, that just kept jumping from pen to pen and startung ruckuses with the beef cattle. When the sale started it was the very first thing they sold. A mexican man with something like 8 kids bought him. In a little while he was leaveing, so I told my dad I was going to go watch him load him.
It turned out he was driving about a 68 4 door impala, he tied the goats feet together and put him in the back seat, and put half or more of his kids in the trunk and drove off. I sure got a kick out of that.
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Dave Shepard

My father tells a story about his grandfather and a goat. It seems that this big old goat got into the house and was found on top of the dining room table. It was last seen sticking is head out of the back window of a big Chrysler on sale day. :D
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Czech_Made

And they eat dog food and they eat newspaper and they will eat laundry right of the clothline.

Den Socling

When I was a kid I bought a white Billy goat from a neighboring farm. I stained his horns with cherry wood stain. He looked like a holy terror.  :D One day I got home from school and found out the goat had kept the next door neighbors trapped in their house all day. Every time they would try to sneak out a door that goat would hear them and butt them back inside. He didn't last long after that. I think my cousin ate him.  :-\

thecfarm

I've had female and male goats. The rubber band is what makes a male goat fun to be around. If given a choice,it does not matter to me. We always had the Nubian or Alpine or a mix. The trick is to bottle feed them and being touched by humans as soon as they are born. I had 3 that would follow us around like a dog. I don't have any bad goats story,just good ones.  ;D  I do miss having them. I had 3 all trained. A sharp,quick  out,out,out,and they would leave the wife's flowers alone or whatever they was trying to get into inside the garage. Kinda like a little child,everything goes into the mouth.
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Quote from: thecfarm on June 04, 2016, 09:39:30 PM
The rubber band is what makes a male goat fun to be around.

Oh yeah....I bet y'all have a ball. That ain't funny rAY.
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Kbeitz

Ok.... I had enough goat... I´m coming back home today...
I got many pictures I think everyone will like.
Missing my home.
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and Wood work shop work
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Kbeitz

Dinners still kicking....



 

Not kicking any more...



 



 

All cooked up...



 

Tasting good...



 
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Love machine shop work
and Wood work shop work
And now a saw mill work

Kbeitz

Collector and builder of many things.
Love machine shop work
and Wood work shop work
And now a saw mill work

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