Adding to the compound

susie

Moved back to the family farm, middle of nowhere Missouri. #1 and her family moved up here and are now my neighbors living in my Mom and Dad's house. The grandsons are loving farm life.

Started with chickens, added honeybees and now we are getting into raising goats. He is an Alpine/Nigerian Dwarf cross. Next step is a few lady friends for kids and milk/cheese/butter.

SCOUT5

If voles in the car bothered you how are you going to like goats on the hood?

Nice looking goat.   A goat dairy will give you all you need with less cost/effort than a dairy cow.  You can also use them to clean brush and keep the weeds down.

montanajoe

Good for you, good for the kids.  

bustedknee

SCOUT5 said:

....A goat dairy will give you all you need with less cost/effort than a dairy cow.  You can also use them to clean brush and keep the weeds down.

You forgot Bar-B-Que.

nononsense

Or cabrito...

Which is nothing short of magnificent!

Best.

mogley98

Missouri is probably nice country if you could rid yourselves of St. Louis

NeoBlackdog

Get him a piece of sheet metal to play on.  Maybe he'll stay off the vehicles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8p22U-5yVA

dreher

It has been a long time since I had goats but all the comments about goats and your car/truck are 100% correct.  They will get sand, small stones in their hooves.  When they jump from the roof to either the hood or the trunk they will slide when they hit the metal surface leaving really impressive scratches!!  They also enjoy pooping all over the car/truck.  At least the poop just washes off.

Word to the wise...........a very, very good fence!!!!!!!

Chief Shaway

Looks like a nice goat. 
The farmer I deer hunt on got some goats. 
When I pulled into where I normally park, I saw the goats on top of the combine cab! 
I kept right on driving. 
All of his goats disappeared when they scratched up the hood of his new tractor. 
The next set of goats he got were of the non-climbing variety. 

dreher

I'm not real sure there is a "non-climbing variety" of goats.  Goats can be a lot of fun if they can be kept on their side of the fence.

I had some real good Togenburg goats.  I even had a star buck.  I don't even remember what a star buck means but back then it signified something special.  I sold a son of my star buck to guy from Minnesota.  He came to pick it up and I look at his ring finger and see a Super Bowl ring!!  Fred Cox ? the field goal kicker for the Vikings back in the early 70s.   Once while watching a Vikings game  they mentioned his wife bred milk goats as part of the color commentator stuff.

asop

Wife threw an engagement party for the daughter of close friends of ours.  One of our neighbors was invited & brought their goat "Gilbert".  She always said she may forget alot about the guest list but never the goat

mogley98

Get them fainting goats and anytime the jump up on something yell at them and have them faint LOL

pulsarnc

Many years ago I grew prize winning roses as a hobby . I was a field tester for Jackson and Perkins for new varieties . My brother had goats . They escaped one day and destroyed over 100 of my roses in one day . Have hated them ever since .

hillbille

had a pygmy goat as a pet for kids, kept it in a chain link dog kennel with my beagles, got them used to the smell and they didn't seem to want to run deer, poor goat thought he was a dog. all I can say is watch your flowers, he would eat any he could reach/climb to and loved dandilions didn't matter if they were yellow or white, seems that was the only thing he would eat, guess he never got a taste for weeds........ they will also find a way into the chicken, dog, and cat food