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Milk goats are a lot like milk cows. The milk is going to taste like what they eat.
Nothing worse than a milk cow that’s got into wild onions……
We feed our milk goats straight alfalfa, and the milk is creamy and sweet.
One relatively new breed not mentioned here is Kinder-goat. This is a cross of Nubian and Pygmy goats resulting is a smaller size yet retaining greater milk production than the pygmy alone. Sheep much prefer just grass while goats will eat browse, small bushy even woody plants, including landscape plants which may be toxic, rhododendron for one. But, if you have blackberry or other bushy undergrowth and want it cleaned up, goats are the ticket. The Kinder-goat was developed with the idea of exporting to less developed areas along the lines of Heifer International.
New Subscriber, found ya the other day. I LOVE goats, BUT I will not own them ever again! Exactly all the reasons you have said. When we switched homesteads, I sold all my goats (had goats for 8 years). I can say hubby hates the goats, they ate his tractor, ate our landscaping, ate our neighbors’ trees. We currently stick with sheep and other livestock. We have Katahdin for meat and we also have Lincoln/Jacob cross for wool.
We have mostly woods, brush and very little grass/yard. We currently have two meat goats which we have used only tie downs for. They will be processed soon, and we will be starting fencing for new goats, but milk goats this time. We had two lambs my children raised for 4-H and they we’re terribly destructive , wrecked the small enclosure we made for them and ate the garden- and were sick all the time.
5 years now never trimmed a hoof, hilly and rocky. Im a sheep person. I have couple black bellies and 1 st croix ram. My favorite is katadin. Mine are super hardy now. Got to breed ,cull all non or slow sheders, wooley ones are weak . Dont fair as well in the cold or heat. Tried 4 strains of dorper, not tough enough in my environment! No more of that breed here for me. I use the st croix and blackbelllie blood on my problem ewes. Im surprized the size and hardiness i get out of some of them. Going to use a stcroix/ blackbellie x katadin.
Cross. On the last 6 dorper x ewes i will ever try. Will see if i get anything worth moving foward with. The strain of katadin i have produced and still improving, seeming hard to beat. So well see!
I have both sheep and goats. I never used to like sheep, but we have hair sheep, (St. Croix) and we milk them. The milk is the most amazing creamy drink you’ve ever had. (We also milk cows and goats, so I can say that from experience). Our very favorite thing is homemade sheep milk ice cream. Raspberry is the best.
Rams don’t stink, they are so gentle and watchful with their flock. We lost our registered upcoming breeding ram with one of the tornadoes (Oklahoma) this spring. I literally cried. I have learned so much by spending time with our sheep. I’ve learned so much about our Shepherd. Our sheep had never been milked before us. They were wild at the beginning. You know what happens once they know and trust you? You can go out into the pasture, and milk them lose. They come in at the same time every night to get put in the barn. The difference between sheep and goats is amazing (I still like my goats, but they are naughty pains).
I live in a small rural town so neither goat or sheep for me. As a young child, my grandma’s next door neighbor had a few Saeen goats as well as chickens. I LOVED watching the new babies every Spring. Goats have always had a special place in my heart, but what you say about sheep and what I’ve seen from Doug and Stacy’s channel makes alot of sense. Never had sheep milk or cheese……now I’m curious. Wonder if the little Amish store a few towns over has some…….ROAD TRIP!
Also I just wanna say my goats choose pasture before they go to the fence rows or woods. If brush is all they got, then sure they’ll eat it, but that doesn’t mean that’s what they prefer. I believe it also depends on breed and perhaps the individual goats
I’ve had both hair sheep and Nigerian dwarf goats. I LOVE the goats and still have them. Sheep were “fine”. When it came down to it, I sold the sheep because the ewes were hard to handle and very flighty. The rams were highly destructive creatures, and tore up buildings and fence posts. I also prefer the goat meat to sheep meat. It’s much more mild and like beef.
The goats (including the bucks) are friendly and easy to handle. Nigerian dwarf milk is fantastic, and absolutely nothing like the milk of standard breeds.
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Did you Nubian goat milk?
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Milk goats are a lot like milk cows. The milk is going to taste like what they eat.
Nothing worse than a milk cow that’s got into wild onions……
We feed our milk goats straight alfalfa, and the milk is creamy and sweet.
One relatively new breed not mentioned here is Kinder-goat. This is a cross of Nubian and Pygmy goats resulting is a smaller size yet retaining greater milk production than the pygmy alone. Sheep much prefer just grass while goats will eat browse, small bushy even woody plants, including landscape plants which may be toxic, rhododendron for one. But, if you have blackberry or other bushy undergrowth and want it cleaned up, goats are the ticket. The Kinder-goat was developed with the idea of exporting to less developed areas along the lines of Heifer International.
Agree we had both sheep way easier than goats
Sheep or Goats ? neather one are worth the trouble in my opinion , But thats just me and my experience , You raise and do what makes you happy .
New Subscriber, found ya the other day. I LOVE goats, BUT I will not own them ever again! Exactly all the reasons you have said. When we switched homesteads, I sold all my goats (had goats for 8 years). I can say hubby hates the goats, they ate his tractor, ate our landscaping, ate our neighbors’ trees. We currently stick with sheep and other livestock. We have Katahdin for meat and we also have Lincoln/Jacob cross for wool.
I live relatively near Camden, not sure I will be able to go, but would love to.
We have mostly woods, brush and very little grass/yard. We currently have two meat goats which we have used only tie downs for. They will be processed soon, and we will be starting fencing for new goats, but milk goats this time. We had two lambs my children raised for 4-H and they we’re terribly destructive , wrecked the small enclosure we made for them and ate the garden- and were sick all the time.
5 years now never trimmed a hoof, hilly and rocky. Im a sheep person. I have couple black bellies and 1 st croix ram. My favorite is katadin. Mine are super hardy now. Got to breed ,cull all non or slow sheders, wooley ones are weak . Dont fair as well in the cold or heat. Tried 4 strains of dorper, not tough enough in my environment! No more of that breed here for me. I use the st croix and blackbelllie blood on my problem ewes. Im surprized the size and hardiness i get out of some of them. Going to use a stcroix/ blackbellie x katadin.
Cross. On the last 6 dorper x ewes i will ever try. Will see if i get anything worth moving foward with. The strain of katadin i have produced and still improving, seeming hard to beat. So well see!
I have both sheep and goats. I never used to like sheep, but we have hair sheep, (St. Croix) and we milk them. The milk is the most amazing creamy drink you’ve ever had. (We also milk cows and goats, so I can say that from experience). Our very favorite thing is homemade sheep milk ice cream. Raspberry is the best.
Rams don’t stink, they are so gentle and watchful with their flock. We lost our registered upcoming breeding ram with one of the tornadoes (Oklahoma) this spring. I literally cried. I have learned so much by spending time with our sheep. I’ve learned so much about our Shepherd. Our sheep had never been milked before us. They were wild at the beginning. You know what happens once they know and trust you? You can go out into the pasture, and milk them lose. They come in at the same time every night to get put in the barn. The difference between sheep and goats is amazing (I still like my goats, but they are naughty pains).
My experience with goats and sheep is very different! My sheep are very hard on fencing and have destroyed more fence then my goats.
I live in a small rural town so neither goat or sheep for me. As a young child, my grandma’s next door neighbor had a few Saeen goats as well as chickens. I LOVED watching the new babies every Spring. Goats have always had a special place in my heart, but what you say about sheep and what I’ve seen from Doug and Stacy’s channel makes alot of sense. Never had sheep milk or cheese……now I’m curious. Wonder if the little Amish store a few towns over has some…….ROAD TRIP!
Also I just wanna say my goats choose pasture before they go to the fence rows or woods. If brush is all they got, then sure they’ll eat it, but that doesn’t mean that’s what they prefer. I believe it also depends on breed and perhaps the individual goats
Both but more sheep a few goats
I’ve had both hair sheep and Nigerian dwarf goats. I LOVE the goats and still have them. Sheep were “fine”. When it came down to it, I sold the sheep because the ewes were hard to handle and very flighty. The rams were highly destructive creatures, and tore up buildings and fence posts. I also prefer the goat meat to sheep meat. It’s much more mild and like beef.
The goats (including the bucks) are friendly and easy to handle. Nigerian dwarf milk is fantastic, and absolutely nothing like the milk of standard breeds.