What is The Smallest Breed Of Goat?

[jdyson]

My Nigerian is about the size of a 50lb dog. Not too big
I hope that helps

 

[iluvsedward]

My pygmy goat kid free ranges with my hens... is that normal? lol shes been doing it for like 2 mnths and hasnt gone out of our yard! I love her

 

[iluvsedward]

oops doublepost

 

[jdyson]

My goats roam with my chickens, but they adults. I wouldn't let them with anything when they were under a year old.

 

[iluvsedward]

My goats roam with my chickens, but they adults. I wouldn't let them with anything when they were under a year old.

I'm not sure how old she is but shes about the size of a small medium-size dog lol her horns are 2 inches

 

[jdyson]

I waited to get chickens until my goats were older and for the right opportunity. I was told that chickens can give younger goats coccidiosis and to wait until they were at least a year. So far everyone has done fine and they seem to get along ok. I can also block the chickens from the goats if I need to. Hope all this helps.

 

[ini24]

how tall are boer goats?

 

[aprilc]

Lots of info here, thanks everyone for posting!

 

[jdyson]

This is one of my boys the summer I got them. They aren't much bigger now

 

[JesnJer]

We are looking at getting a couple Nigerians (one doe and one buck) because i read that their milk is pretty close to a cows milk. We are going to START with one 80x80 space because the rolls of goat fencing are usually 330ft. We are also planning to have a house for them that can be closed at night because we have a coyote problem in our area as well as a mountain lion from time to time. I should also note that we want to get both at a young age so we can have a lil more say in their temperament.

Would it be ok to take the goats back and forth between two pens?
We have 5 wooded acres and were planning to have two pens in two different areas of our property for them, we cant make a very large pen because our property has a creek going down the middle.

When we put up the fence are metal t posts sufficient? How far apart should we space the posts? Country life is still fairly new to both of us so we are both learning a LOT!

We chose Nigerians for the milking, I had read that you need to breed your doe from time to time to be able to keep milking her and rather than try to find a buck to breed her we just assume have our own buck.

Any advice?