[Carl f k]

Unfortunately my goats have to go, willows constant bleating is annoying everyone..she wants for nothing but continues and it's getting on our titsto be honest... How the neighbours havn't complaned I'll never know. Is been a great experience with the kids being born here,milking,making cheese and ice cream.Have a freezer full of milk so can continue with that for a while. Thank you to all who have helped and advised us along the way. They are going to a 3 acre field and we can go visit,done a deal with them and having cash and chickens off them as they are breeders and we can have as many as we like, this isn't the end of our goat experience as we will do it again in the future, a little different and  quiet ones . Again thanks to you all,I'm not goin anywhere just up to poultry page xxxx

[Bionic]

Aww, thats a shame but we can't always love everything. What suits one person doesn't suit another.
Better luck with the chickens 

[Carl f k]

Chickens are just adding to the flock already got 10 and a good ammount of customers for eggs

[shygirl]

i understand completely. when we take the kids off the nannies for a few hours to milk the girls, my goats shriek blue murder for hours, my poor neighbours. the way my goats cry is like they are being tortured - its blood curdling.
shame for you 

[honeyend]

I think people underestimate the amount of company goats need. I had a pet goat for many years that I bought complete with tether from the board in Tesco's. She lived in the back garden with the ponies and shared a stable with one in the winter. She was never any trouble apart from when I tried to tether her along the lane near a tasty  hedge, she would last about an hour then pull out the stake and run home.
 My mum once looked after her while we were away on holiday, after which she said she would never want one. Floppy lived a long happy life but she was as much apart of the family as one of the dogs and would play with us, was extremely stubborn and loved my roses. I think there is nothing sadder than a goat crying.

[happygolucky]

Life all about learning and trying, nothing worse than regretting  you did not give it a try, we had to re home our ducks as they quacked every time our light went on and as we are a B&B that could be anytime, although not a sole complained (only my moaney man)  I lived near a farm and when the lambs were taken to  market it was so noisy with the mummies calling them 

[shygirl]

I lived near a farm and when the lambs were taken to  market it was so noisy with the mummies calling them 

silence of the lambs 

[jinglejoys]

 The noisiest goats I have ever had were Sanaans you could here them a mile off but they were both from the same family

[plumseverywhere]

I must be very lucky then! Ours are pretty quiet unless something is wrong (ie. no water/hay/someone has their head stuck in fence etc) otherwise no prob's at all.  They do seem to fare better in a herd though, when we only had two I think they were lonelier than now there are the 4 of them plus their sheepy mates

[Lesley Silvester]

Mine bleat a greeting when when I go out but otherwise they are quiet. Except when they are in season of course but people have their windows closed that time of year. 

[goosepimple]

get a couple of wee pygmy ones Carl just for the fun of it, they only eat a wee bit and they love you to bits.  Disney 

[HelenVF]

I'm sorry   Always a difficult decision to do something like that.

I have a pygmy and a golden guernsey.  I hardly hear the pygmy make a noise - only time was when I heard him frantically bleating, looked out the window and realised the GG was nowhere to be seen!  He had jumped the wall and was "talking" to some walkers!  The GG is a little bit noisier but nothing out of the ordinary.  He just bleats when he sees people as he wants a fuss lol.

Helen

[fiestyredhead331]

same here MGM, Daisy gives me a half hearted bleat when she sees me walking about which I take as a 'hello' and then during the season she's desperate "maaaaaaaaaan" constantly, little harlot  but Biscuit is very good at letting you know when she wants something but then we have so much space up here and neighbours are far enough away that it doesn't bother them 
well at least you can say you tried it Carl & Heidi and when you get old you can sit and say "remember when....." 

[ferretkeeper]

So sad to have to let the goats go, I'm considering rehoming some young ones who aren't suited to their current home for similar reasons.

My neighbours have in the past phoned me to say there's a problem with the goats (and sheep/lambs but that's another story, they don't keep livestock and don't really get it!) - I was in the pub so not best pleased to have to come home. They were indeed shrieking as they can do, it was late and we live in a valley so noise travels. It turned out the goats had been evicted from their stable by escaped piglets who were trashing their home - the goats were standing in the pig stable doorway just crying!

Same neighbour also told me that a passer by had stopped our opposite neighbour to say they thought someone was hurt or crying - luckily this neighbour has had goats and was very sensible and said it was genuinely them and nothing to worry about - passer by took some convincing apparently.

On the whole everyone has been very understanding and helpful, no complaints about noise or smells or escapees, just genuine concern - we live by a busy main road. It does make me think we need some signage and phone numbers for people to contact me on, got a public footpath running alongside one field - possible marketing opportunity being missed too!

[Roxy]

Two of my intact male pygmys make the most dreadful racket - sounds almost like an elephant - combine that with the constant ramming of a big heavy bull gate - that's noise.  Other goats just shout if feed time is late.  If you start to pet a goat, they do get very demanding, like any animal, and they bleat, human comes running......and so it goes on.
Livestock DO make noise - not really anything you can do to stop them