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I don't know bout advantages, just differences. They have very different diets. Goats are browsers, preferring sticks, twigs and woody stems, sheep are grazers and rely largely on grass. Typically goats make better dairy animals, even though sheep CAN be dairy. Sheep are much better woolers...

Id take some tasty lambs off you if you were closer! XD

So much info and support on here, I can't thank you all enough! I can't say I have gotten so much info and support out of an animal community thus far... I think I may end up liking sheep people quite a bit. ;3 I know so much more about how big I am going to make my pen and how I am going to set...

Thanks for the info on copper levels and shelters! I was pretty sure that goats needed far more copper than sheep could handle, it's good to know that is especially important for Southdowns. I will just stick with my original plan of feeding the goat grains away from the sheep and lacing it with...

In that case, the garage may be better with a thick layer of wood chips, gravel and sand with hay on top. The wood chips and sand would allow it to drain into the drains built into the floor of my garage and could be soaked down to clean it, but would still give a lot of padding for the goats to...

Our city is an interesting one. Aside from dogs and cats there are no restrictions on how you keep/care for an animal, and there are no restrictions whatsoever on what kinds of animals or how many you can have. However, animals kept "outdoors" must be "housed and maintained" 100 feet from a...

So I am considering getting a babydoll southdown sheep ewe and keeping it with a Nigerian Dwarf goat doe. These two animals are similar in size and diet... Just a difference in copper intake. (Easy to fix, just put some copper supplement over the goats grain when you milk Id think.) I have heard...