Goat information

[Skipper81]

Lots of good info on backyard herds also

 

[Gray Farms]

The breed is unknown. I should ask my neighbor. Can I keep them in my horse pasture? It's not goat proof so will I have to fix the fence? The hutch has a little shade area and it has tons of grass, like the picture below.View attachment 1681181

Yes your going to have to fix fence or they will be out all the time. How large is their pen? It needs to be roughly 100 feet by 100 feet or they will eat all the grass very quickly and you'll just have a dirt/mud pen.

 

[FluffTheDuck]

It's probably 50 x 75 square feet.

 

[Gray Farms]

They'll have it eaten down to just dirt in no time. You'll need to supplement them with hay everyday.

 

[FluffTheDuck]

Yeah, I'll do that.

 

[cassie]

Goats don't ram fences but they can and do get their horns caught in them. If that happens in hot weather and you don't find the goat in time you will have a dead goat. That is one of several reasons that I did not allow my goats to keep their horns.