Raising Goats 101 🐐: Beginner FAQS

Welcome to Goats 101. These cute and curious critters could be a great addition to your farm or family- but there is a lot to consider first. Can you have just one? How do you keep goats from escaping? How do you get goats milk? Don't worry- we will answer all these questions and more as Wren takes us through her top 10 most asked Goat questions. You herd it here first!

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:22 Can You Have Just One?
0:48 How Many Goats Per Acre?
1:33 Deworming?
2:49 Goats and Permaculture
4:11 Goats Escaping
5:21 Goat Breeding and Milking Equation
9:07 Good Milk Breeds
9:42 Making Goat Friends
10:57 Feeding Goats
12:37 Conclusion

[goofyroofy]

Geoff Lawton had a great video on using goats to pasture in brush and wooded areas to make smaller trees and limbs ready to be cut for rocket stove fuel, so as long as you have an area that you want either controlled or browsed, goats can be alike brush hogs that give you milk and meat^^.

[thefrenchgardener]

This was very one that made me pause for concern was about the breeding in order to get milk. I use goat milk soaked cracked corn to finish off my meat chickens but it is getting harder to find at a good price for the amount that I need; that is why I am thinking of getting two goats.

[bleakdecember]

It's always a good day when there's a new Insteading video ❤

[SheilaTheGrate]

So sheep are actually a better choice (lower maintenance) for a small hobby farm that wants primarily milk and secondarily fiber?

[JamesSmith-vvys]

Goats are fantastic if you are over run with brush and invasive weeds. Like everything education with a good dose common sense.

[robertcastello]

Enjoyed your video informative and entertaining. Have ten goat's currently with two of them expecting in about two months. Any special feed during this period? Dixie General Store Heflin Alabama

[PatriciaGlaeser]

I love to walk my herd of Kiko and Lamancha goats to a nearby forest every day. I have to use treats to keep them with me. My question is, are nuts and dried fruit ok for I little treat?

[mrswolf]

Great video! I jad read that Japanese knowledge helps milk production, we have it unfortunately and even into property next to us. Any info or tips on that plant by chance?

[claire_A-T]

Thanks for your video, I so want to raise goats, people all ways say that when they live in an apartment and don't have a flower pot of land.thats me!

[It_Puts_The_Lotion_On_Its_Skin]

It’s 3 o clock in the morning, I already have cats, and dogs, I just took my newest puppy out for a walk, and I realize now that I need boa constrictors, an African bullfrog, a large tropical fish tank, a beehive, and two of these things. And an Argentinian Tegu just to be safe.

[bryanjohnson]

My buck is a sweet and nice and when he's not he stays out of your way. Not sure what you mean by the downside of having a book?? Maybe I just got lucky....

[Lisalisells]

Your voice and the times you pause when speaking, I mean you an moknowshair has the EXACT same
Voice. Y’all may be long lost sisters

[LaineyBug]

Is there a goat breed that is good for fiber and milk?

[EmilyWilliams-oi]

I have a Nigerian dwarf doe. she is wet under her tail. she hasbeen wormed goatinerals baking soda free choice. her stool been sent to vet. negative. a handful of grain mixed grass hay. why is her stool so runny? fresh water also.

[Mrkevi]

How do i get a goat that wont have horns, so that he'll be safe around kids un leashed

[mike]

Why are those goats on FRECKIN CHAINS?

[robertaedmunds]

Buck or doe determines sex of the kids.

[philliphall]

Don’t play with young males
They can really hurt you when you’re not looking and you could break bones and cuts
There not pets if they have horns