Anybody on HC raise goats?

[DaMadman]

a three walled slant roof would be more than sufficient for a few goats I have two goats at the house now. they are dwarfs goats and are the easiest thing to take care of.

our actually stay in a 20 x 60 chainlink enclosure and eat straw and Heffer feed (mixed oats from the amish mill)

We have a fenced in acre field but these spoiled dwarf goats would rather be in the 20 x 60 enclosure (dog run)

I built them a tin slant roof enclosure that is only enclosed to about 5 foot up and then there is an opening from the 5 foot mark to the roof for ventilation. so basically it is like a stable for the two of them my enclosure is maybe 10 foot long and maybe 5 foot wide, hay covered dirt floor and corrugated tin roof.

you really should look into the types of goats and what you are planning on doing with them and how you want them to respond to humans.

The first goat we got was from the amish down the street, she was 7 weeks old and stayed in a large pasture with her mother an 20 other goats. Even though we took her home at 7 weeks and handled her every day, even brought her inside for the first few weeks, that goat stay wild as a march hare for as long as we had her, she wasn't friendly, wouldn't let a human touch her unless you trapped her in a corner and held her down it was impossible to milk her or trim her hooves.

anyway enough of my rambling. They are very easy to take care of and if you have any specific question feel free to email me or PM me and here is another website you can go to, there are almost as many informative "goat" people on this site http://www.goatweb.com/coffeeshop/index.php ,

as there are informative hunters and gun people on huntchat.

signup for their forum and read and ask lots of questions. You will find out however raising goats is not an exact science and there are as many different "OPINIONS" on how to do certain things as there are opinions on the perfect rifle caliber.

Hope this help