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The Relaxed Farming Dairy Goats: Why keep Dairy goats...
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Why keep dairy goats
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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: Read more

  • Our skin and hair are great for making so many things: some breeds of goat have fabulous long hair that can be used to make clothing. You may have heard of cashmere wool: this is actually from a goat and is incredibly soft. The hair is shorn or combed from the goats and then spun into wool just like with a sheep.

    Cashmere goats live in very cold places and so a coat made from cashmere would keep you VERY warm!!

    Goat skins (that are left when the males are killed for meat - Hmmmm... did not enjoy writing that..) can be turned into all sorts of things: rugs, drums, boots, gloves, book covers, coats...

  • 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

 A Cashmere Goat
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Cashmere jumpers and socks
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