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A good friend of mine breeds Angora goats for milk, and makes cheese and soap as well as showing the goats. It seems like a lot of work. And she only has a max
by King-Aaron 6y ago
A good friend of mine breeds Angora goats for milk, and makes cheese and soap as well as showing the goats.
It seems like a lot of work. And she only has a maximum of around two dozen at a time. I grew up on cattle farms and cows are much easier.
- tomcam 6y agoBut goats are endlessly hilarious
- dmix 6y agoPlenty of farms with goats and llamas to visit on weekends if you work in southern ontario. Or AirBnBs on mini-farms. Goats always stand out as the funniest animals. But their eyes endlessly creep me out. We get away from the city and do this quite often.
- tomcam 6y agoYou spend your time well. Yes their eyes are alien.
- dmix 6y agoThanks. Found an article explaining them, I've been meaning to look it up. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/08/10/heres-why-goats-have-those-freaky-eyes/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2...
- artificialLimbs 6y agoOur Nubian goat takes about a half hour of walking down to the barn, feeding, and milking daily. Night time is only a brief feeding (if winter) and lock up, maybe 10 minutes. But that's 1, not 24. For just the milk, the labor is worth it for us. Farmers style goat cheese is fairly painless to make with maybe an hour or so actual handling time total for a 5 lb block. Soaping and showing seem like a labor of love.
- King-Aaron 6y agoYeah, my friend certainly loves her goats, and the entire lifestyle around them. Her day job is research with an agricultural institute and basically lives and breathes goats.