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The Relaxed Farming Dairy Goats: Why keep Dairy goats...
All about us
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Why keep dairy goats
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Fascinating facts
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How to look after us
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Our offspring
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Relaxed FarmingWhy keep goats... (as answered by Curds). We make great smallholding animals and in years gone by most people who had a bit of land would keep a goat or two. Why? Because we provide far more than most other farm animals...

  • Our milk is fabulously healthy: Read more

  • And guess what, goat meat is fabulously healthy too: let's face it, half of goats born are going to be male and as one male goat can mate with lots of us girls, that leaves a lot of spare males.

    It's sad to think you might want to eat one of my kids but.... Goat meat is healthy meat because although it is classed as a 'red' meat (and red meat is known to NOT be that good for you humans) it is low in fat and high in protein. In terms of the human diet, these are good things!

    And as with our milk, goat meat is eaten by huge numbers of people all over the world (although it is not that common in the UK, yet!!!).

  • Our skin and hair are great for making so many things: Read more

  • Our poo is lovely, no, really: Read more

  • Lots of people think we eat anything, well we don't: Read more

  • We are intelligent, affectionate, inquisitive and playful: Read more

Boer goats are used a lot for meat
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Charlie Brown, part Boer (our 2013 billy)
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