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Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: little blue on June 04, 2010, 10:50:02 pm

Title: goat photos
Post by: little blue on June 04, 2010, 10:50:02 pm
Sorry folks, been abit "snap happy" today, so am going to bore you with all kind of pics....       ;D

Geraldine
(http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt228/RuthP/june%202010/th_S7001310-1.jpg) (http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt228/RuthP/june%202010/?action=view&current=S7001310-1.jpg)

Cesar, the Bagot billy
(http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt228/RuthP/june%202010/th_S7001362-1.jpg) (http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt228/RuthP/june%202010/?action=view&current=S7001362-1.jpg)

and Margo
(http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt228/RuthP/june%202010/th_S7001356-1.jpg) (http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt228/RuthP/june%202010/?action=view&current=S7001356-1.jpg)
Title: Re: goat photos
Post by: jameslindsay on June 04, 2010, 10:57:21 pm
Who could ever tire of looking at pictures of happy, well cared for animals. :)
Title: Re: goat photos
Post by: Roxy on June 04, 2010, 11:39:21 pm
They are all gorgeous, Little Blue!!! 
Title: Re: goat photos
Post by: piggy on June 06, 2010, 11:25:18 pm
They are lovely,would love some goats but oh wont let me.
Title: Re: goat photos
Post by: cmorrell on June 07, 2010, 12:56:53 am
How incredibly cute they all are. Absolutely love the massive horns on Cesar!
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Post by: bamford6 on June 07, 2010, 11:21:31 am
very nice is it costley  to keep them .and whot price when selling .
Title: Re: goat photos
Post by: Roxy on June 07, 2010, 04:04:13 pm
I keep 22 goats at the moment, Bamford.  As to cost, well, yes, in winter they do put away a fair bit of haylage and goat feed etc.  Summer not too bad, they do have hay at night, but fill up on grass and branches during the day. Goats browse more than graze, and eat hawthorn, brambles, wild rose etc. as well as tree branches.  Then there is the worming, and any medication etc. 

As to prices when selling - pygmy goats are much sought after, and fetch a good price - £150 plus for a kid, male or female.  I have sold my sanaan nanny kids for a similar price in the past.  Registered dairy breeds, the females can fetch even more.  As I have a lot of grass, its probable I will run this years kids on, and sell next summer when they are nearly ready to breed from.

Having said all this - I have people coming in droves giving me goats for nothing.  We seem to have turned into a sanctuary.  But at least breeding from the free females, I can recoup some feed costs.