What are the uses for pygmy goats?
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Question by Nekochan: What are the uses for pygmy goats?
So my mom and I are starting sort of a back yard urban farm-type thing with chickens, a duck, a beehive, and hopefully, two pygmy goats. But my mother only wants to keep pygmy goats if we can find a way for them to earn their keep. We live in Seattle, so it’s definitely the city, but we’ve had a sort of urban farm before, just never with goats or a beehive. Any idea of what I could convince her with?
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You can use them to keep brush nibbled back on your property, or, I suppose you could raise kids and sell them. Perhaps if you have enough little farm critters, you could have an informal petting zoo of sorts? I don’t believe it’s practical to milk them, although I suppose it could be done.
twhrider
March 31, 2012 at 9:21 pm
tell her the good AND bad things about it
dobbyb
March 31, 2012 at 10:19 pm
they are great lawn mowers! 🙂
mariana
March 31, 2012 at 10:38 pm