What is the easiest goat to raise?

Saanen. Saanen goats are the largest breed of dairy goat, and are second in milk production only to Alpine goats. These popular goats have short, white hair and upright ears, and are known for their easy-going temperament.

What is the best age to slaughter a goat?

3 to 5 months

How many goats can live on one acre?

How Many Goats Per Acre? Goats are similar to sheep in that you can support about six to eight goats on an acre of land. Because goats are browsers, not grazers, it will be important that the land you have will supply them with the sort of forage they like to eat—see below.

How can you tell how old a goat is?

Determining the age of a goat is easy to do for the first few years of its life. The procedure is called toothing a goat. A goat has no teeth in the upper front of its mouth, but it has eight teeth in the lower front. The size and condition of these eight teeth is the best gauge to determine the goat’s age.

How old is a goat in human years?

Human Age in Goat Years Conversion

Animals	One Human is equal to
Goat	5.33
Groundhog	5.71
Guinea pig	10
Hamster, golden	20

Can you tell a goats age by horns?

They do not shed their horns, so a goat’s age can be determined by counting the annual growth rings. Both males and female mountain goats have horns, according to the Animal Diversity Web (ADW) at the University of Michigan.

What is the maximum age of goat?

Some goats can be made to kid twice in 18 months. The goats reach their maximum efficiency at the age of five to seven years. In exceptional cases they continue to be serviceable even up to 12 years and in rare cases up to 14 years.

How do I stop my goat from eating everything?

To keep them off of a particular area, I’d think step-in posts with electric netting and a sufficiently powerful solar charger would be a good choice. Try applying fresh cow dung or goat dung on leaves. The stinky odor keeps the goats away from them. Check the type of plant before spraying it.

Can mother and son goats breed?

Male goats can breed as young as 7 weeks old. This doesn’t mean that they should be bred, but it’s definitely possible for him to get his sister and mother pregnant, so it’s important to remove bucks from females at 7 weeks old! They won’t breed, however, just for fun.

What happens if brother and sister goats mate?

In theory, you could breed a brother to a sister, and breed resulting males back to the mother, and resulting females back to the father, grandfather and so-on as long as the original goats were alive, and then when they started getting small and having trouble reproducing, you could cross the two lines and start over.

Can goats mate with siblings?

When it comes to line-breeding there is no set rules such as breeding daughter and grandfather, except never breed full brothers and sisters. Occasionally you can breed father/daughter but it’s not ideal. Line-breeding goats will accentuate the good qualities- and the bad.

Can a goat get pregnant by 2 different fathers?

Yep, Stacey’s right, absolutely possible! Does can cycle again after they’ve already been impregnated, which is why sometimes when you have triplets you’ll have 2 big ones and 1 little one (or vice versa)… because the kids aren’t actually the same age when they’re born.

Can a goat have babies days apart?

Yes it can happen but not very often. Most of the time with multiples the goat will birth all the kids within a few hours. However if the first baby is a hard birth then the goat may need some time to recover before birthing the next. Also I had one goat that miscarried one kid but ended up carrying the other to term.

How often do goats have twins?

Boer goats have a high kidding rate of about 180–190% in which twins are common.

Can two buck goats live together?

Bucks can live together, but they will become much more territorial when they’re in rut. They’ll constantly challenge each other and try to climb the pecking order. You have a better chance of two bucks accepting each other if they were raised together.

Do wether goats pee on themselves?

They do not go into heat and become hormonal like does and they don’t go into rut and stink like bucks (bucks urinate on their own face during breeding season, as well as emit odors from their scent glands that even your neighbors can smell!)

Should I get a goat buck?

Remember, I said you need a buck if you want your does to produce milk or have kids for meat. If you are not breeding goats, you do not need a buck. If you only want a few goats as brush eaters, pasture ornaments, or pets, your best option would be a few wethers (castrated bucks).

Why do billy goats stink?

Bucks stink with a strong musky odor, which comes from both their scent glands, located near their horns, and their urine, which they spray on their face, beards, front legs and chest. They usually spray themselves during rut — that is, the time when the does are in estrus.

Why do goats pee in their mouth?

Male goats pee in their mouth and on other parts of the body to attract female goats. Yes, you read that correctly. The scent of a male goats pee is actually used as an attractant for female goats. Essentially, the goats pee is like cologne that they spray themselves with to attract a partner.

Why do goats drink their pee?

Male goats will drink their urine and spray themselves with it to attract female goats. Billy goats — or bucks, as goat fanciers correctly call them — are intact male goats. They stopped drinking their pee. The main sign is a male goat persistently straining to urinate but passing little to no urine.

How does a goat pee on its face?

When bucks go into rut they pee all over themselves. They pee on their beards, in their mouths, on top of their heads, down their front legs, in their water bucket, and just anywhere they feel they should pee, even if it’s you. Oreo now has urine burns from his pee scalding the fur off his face.