Back before the ethnic population shift, and before I could afford cows, I raised goats to feed the family.
In short, they eat, ditto, ditto, ditto, and when it's time to butcher, as you can see in the picture posted in this thread, there's nothing there.
So, I wouldn't recommend it, but lotta people growing them around here so they must know something I didn't.
You need a strong "field" type fence to keep them where you want them and they are good grazers. If you can afford the fencing and have pastures that you can rotate then you could save on the feed bill.....feed around here has moved from $7 ish to $10 ish/50# bag, since the drought for cattle feed...assume goat feed is priced similarly.....oats/sweet feed like horses like.
On the positive side if you are interested, I raised Nubians but the current popular goat species is the Boar breed....Brown fronts with white rear halves. Must be more profitable than Nubians.
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