If you're going to use electric netting, get the premier netting over the standard. It holds up a lot better with goats. Some breeds of goats are jumpers so the netting will not contain them. When I first introduced my goats to electric netting, I had 2 quickly learn they could go under the netting. They went back to cattle panel fencing till I butchered them out. Now that I've used the netting a few years, teaching kids right away on the netting produces does that respect the netting. My horned buck destroyed the netting, polled buck does wonderful with it. I think the most important note is with goats, you need to look at this type of fencing as containment fencing not confinement fencing. If hungry enough, spooked or other trees just look tastier, they will go through it! You definitely need housing, they hate wind & rain. If I were in your shoes, I'd purchase a couple of just weaned meat goats for brush clearing and you can butcher them out in 9 months or sell them. This gives you some working experience with goats without much effort in tending them. Building a homestead may not be the best time being tied to milking every 12 hours, 7 days a week. A milking animal requires commitment, wait till you're settled before considering a milking doe. BTW - when I switched from milk cow to milk goat, the whole family had no problem drinking goat milk - good feed = good milk. My milking does do not browse.
Until your goats clear your undeveloped land of all the weeds and noxious plants your milk will be very unpredictable in taste. I would suggest you get goats and not plan on breeding/ milking them for a year until they have killed off all the "bad stuff". A year sounds like a long time but you can be working on getting your milk station/barn setup in the mean time. Great info guys!
+Chick-a-Woof Ranch that's a really great point! Thanks for sharing. We totally want them to clear. I'm hoping we can just borrow some from a neighbor. Milking noxious plants... that makes so much sense. Thanks!--kelly
Been raising goats for a long time am already a sub of Arms Family because he has Kiko's like me. Been using goats for weeding and pasture repair now it's amazing how some are making a business of it :) wish I could but seems locals just think its a joke...to bad
I agree with Daniel...pygmy goats are a great place to start. They stay small and are generally friendly. We made the mistake of starting with a Boer goat and she got too big for me to handle. All goats are rough on fencing. Do your research on what kind of strong fencing will work for you. Great video! 👍
My ex and I had 8 1/2 acres and we had cattle, pigs, chickens, ducks, turkeys and a donkey. We also had a garden that we canned our veggies and sold the excess.
The Dexter cow is great for small farms great beef and milk if you want to go that way. My dtr has 5 acres and we have 4 cows who are pregnant. We have a large garden and can most of our foods. We have done goats, no not again. We raise free range chickens and meat birds. You can do a lot on5 acres
Did I miss where they talked about goats being profitable for clearing land? seems like they talked about everything else besides the basics of profiting off goats...
If you're going to use electric netting, get the premier netting over the standard. It holds up a lot better with goats. Some breeds of goats are jumpers so the netting will not contain them. When I first introduced my goats to electric netting, I had 2 quickly learn they could go under the netting. They went back to cattle panel fencing till I butchered them out. Now that I've used the netting a few years, teaching kids right away on the netting produces does that respect the netting. My horned buck destroyed the netting, polled buck does wonderful with it. I think the most important note is with goats, you need to look at this type of fencing as containment fencing not confinement fencing. If hungry enough, spooked or other trees just look tastier, they will go through it! You definitely need housing, they hate wind & rain. If I were in your shoes, I'd purchase a couple of just weaned meat goats for brush clearing and you can butcher them out in 9 months or sell them. This gives you some working experience with goats without much effort in tending them. Building a homestead may not be the best time being tied to milking every 12 hours, 7 days a week. A milking animal requires commitment, wait till you're settled before considering a milking doe. BTW - when I switched from milk cow to milk goat, the whole family had no problem drinking goat milk - good feed = good milk. My milking does do not browse.
Until your goats clear your undeveloped land of all the weeds and noxious plants your milk will be very unpredictable in taste. I would suggest you get goats and not plan on breeding/ milking them for a year until they have killed off all the "bad stuff". A year sounds like a long time but you can be working on getting your milk station/barn setup in the mean time. Great info guys!
+Chick-a-Woof Ranch that's a really great point! Thanks for sharing. We totally want them to clear. I'm hoping we can just borrow some from a neighbor. Milking noxious plants... that makes so much sense. Thanks!--kelly
Been raising goats for a long time am already a sub of Arms Family because he has Kiko's like me. Been using goats for weeding and pasture repair now it's amazing how some are making a business of it :) wish I could but seems locals just think its a joke...to bad
Subscribed after seeing this video. Super helpful, thank you for what you do.
I agree with Daniel...pygmy goats are a great place to start. They stay small and are generally friendly. We made the mistake of starting with a Boer goat and she got too big for me to handle. All goats are rough on fencing. Do your research on what kind of strong fencing will work for you. Great video! 👍
Very interesting and informative. Thanks for hosting Daniel Arms... nothing like hearing it from someone who has experience with goats...
I’m so excited for y’all!! God is doing great things with y’all! ❤️❤️
Heck yeah Daniel the goat man, he knows is stuff, glad you had him on.
You are so correct!!! I learn a TON from him!!!!!
Better Together Life he learns it's all from me lol
+Keeping It Dutch Hahahaha!!! He did say that!!
My ex and I had 8 1/2 acres and we had cattle, pigs, chickens, ducks, turkeys and a donkey. We also had a garden that we canned our veggies and sold the excess.
Thank you for this video.
Makes me miss the South. Thanks for the great content and upbeat spirit :)
The Dexter cow is great for small farms great beef and milk if you want to go that way. My dtr has 5 acres and we have 4 cows who are pregnant. We have a large garden and can most of our foods. We have done goats, no not again. We raise free range chickens and meat birds. You can do a lot on5 acres
Did I miss where they talked about goats being profitable for clearing land? seems like they talked about everything else besides the basics of profiting off goats...
43 minutes!! Man, I'll have to go top off my coffee! 😁
hahaha! Yup, just can't figure out how to keep these collaboration videos shorter. But I gotta figure it out. lol!
Na, it's good. I'm 30 minutes in now. Good stuff!
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Royal America !!!
hahahahaha!!!! Yea....I can never say that word correctly! lol!! 😂
I'm just messing bro, great video
Drawf cow and you could start now with some potted fruit trees.
Great idea!
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