Are Nigerian dwarf goats decent for milking purposes?

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Goats are notorious, like everyone already said, for wanting to be on the other side. In my opinion you need 2, or 3, goats to keep them in balance. I started with one rescue Nigerian/Toggenburg not knowing squat about goats but being the local sucker. Sucker = oh look at those blue eyes, oh she has a broken jaw and missing teeth, lets take her to the vet and spend 300 dollars on blood work, x-rays, shots, and surgery. Well, I built her a nice pen, 50 feet by 50 feet with and nice manger. The fence is 4 foot no-climb horse followed by 2 board above at just over 6 feet tall. Everytime I left her pen she'd bawl, and bawl, and bawl...2 days later, at night, in the dark, someone was banging on my font door (my house). My wife says "who could that be" as we live in the country. It was Shirley Sweet the goat! She jumped out of a 6 foot fence. To make my long story short, she did this two more time so I found a 4H girl that sells her Toggie kids after fairtime and bought twin wether, and doe. Since I added them NO goat has attempted to climb, or jump out. They are content in their little herd. That's my experience. It may not work for everyone, or all breeds, but it did for me. It's also a good idea to have some "areas" they can go to and forage in the better weather. Mine will stay together, off lead, but they have to be watched closely because they will decimate any shrub in minutes. They try and head to my blueberries and that's a no-no. Oh, and one other thing - never stake, or tie a goat to a tree. They are very skittish, like deer for example, and can injure themselves, or others that get in the path of a rope, or wire.