Why Goats?
When homesteaders or hobby farmers think about buying an animal to make milk for their family, many automatically think of the cow. This is unfortunate since goats are a much better choice for most small landholders. Goats produce more milk per pound of food consumed, meaning they are more efficient milk producers. By some estimates, there is more goat’s milk produced around the world than cow’s milk. One thing is clear — goats do well in areas that do not have enough lush vegetation to support cattle. Cows are popular in the United States, because a single cow can produce more milk than a single goat can, and they fit into the factory farm environment better than goats. Goats are the perfect milk producer for a small family living on a few acres. If you’re living on less than 5 acres, you’d have to buy a lot of feed for a cow, and it would be producing a LOT of manure! Unless you have a very large garden, you may have to pay to have the manure hauled away. You may also have a problem
