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Only question I can help you with is the milk one.
Brush goats don't make much milk. Or think of it like a meat cow verses a dairy cow. If you really want milk, you need to get a dairy type of goat. The only problem with having a dairy goat eat the brush for you, is some of what they eat might give an off flavor to the milk (of course, you would have that problem no matter what)
One other comment though:
As to brush clearing... if you want them to eat something 'nasty', then you need to get goats who grew up eating it. So like juniper. Most goats don't really like the taste, but if you find a goat that ate it as a baby, then they will be happy to eat it for you.
My point is, don't buy a goat raised on hay if you want that goat to eat a not very palatable shrub.
Only question I can help you with is the milk one.
Brush goats don't make much milk. Or think of it like a meat cow verses a dairy cow. If you really want milk, you need to get a dairy type of goat. The only problem with having a dairy goat eat the brush for you, is some of what they eat might give an off flavor to the milk (of course, you would have that problem no matter what)
One other comment though:
As to brush clearing... if you want them to eat something 'nasty', then you need to get goats who grew up eating it. So like juniper. Most goats don't really like the taste, but if you find a goat that ate it as a baby, then they will be happy to eat it for you.
My point is, don't buy a goat raised on hay if you want that goat to eat a not very palatable shrub.
