Popular lore has it that goats will eat anything–even tin cans. But it’s just not true. The real question is whether goats prefer to graze grass off the ground, like sheep, or browse vines and brambles like, well, goats. My personal suspicion is, it depends on the goat. I recently asked a breeder of Kiko […]
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There’s no shortage of rocks on our farm property. In fact, there are piles of them scattered all around. I guess it was to difficult to actually get rid of the rocks, so previous owners just piled them up wherever it was convenient. We thought a rock pile would make a nice feature for our […]
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Everybody I’ve talked to about our new farming enterprise has warned us against buying goats. “Goats get up in the morning thinking of ways to make your life miserable,” said our friend Gini. Goats are notorious escape artists. One farmer I visited described how a kid goat had vaulted a fence by springing off it’s […]
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