* Goats are intelligent, inquisitive and very playful!
* The vicious rumor is untrue; goats do not eat tin cans!
* Goats don't have any upper front teeth! They do have a tough toothless “dental pad”. Goats also have teeth on the top and bottom of their jaw further back in the mouth.
The following is from the current issue of the Dairy Goat Journal (link above)
"Llamas, donkeys and trained dogs can guard goats quite effectively."
I was just having a conversation at work this week about the dangers of predators to a herd of goats. This is an issue I cannot fully appreciate since I've never lived on a farm or had to deal with it before. ...Well I do live in a house with both a ferocious kitty and a dwarf rabbit...we keep them on separate floors and so far they've never met. I plan to keep it that way."We keep two gelded male llamas to guard our
goats from coyotes and stray dogs. They are rescue
llamas from SELR, (South East Llama Rescue), and
they are happy to eat what the goats eat. That keeps our
costs down. Goat babies love them and play on them like 'llama mountains.'"
"Goat berries and urine are pH neutral, beneficial to the environment, and suitable for composting or immediate application to the garden."
"This is very sandy soil with no rocks to be found. Few plants can survive in sandy soil, but the dairy goats and llamas have augmented this land tremendously, which makes it ready for a greater variety of plants. We use a snow shovel to collect loads of goat and llama berries to add to compost, moving it with a nifty little garden trailer that follows behind a lawn tractor."
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