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Originally Posted by cowboyhater
We just bought 4 acres and are building. My wife wants to get a Niderian Dwarf Goat. I'm fine with that as long as she (the goat) will mow the lawn. My wife wants the milk. How involved is goat ownership? (Think of me as being kinda like Oliver Wendall Douglas in Green Acres. I am NOT a farm boy.)
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I'm far from a farm girl too, I'm originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. But actually, owning a goat does not take that much involvement. Fortunately, we live on an acre so Ralph is on a chain which gives him access to about 1/4 of the acre in the way back and he has a little wooden house for when it rains or to sleep. He knocked down his first one by butting it with his horns, I suppose it was a goat type temper tantrum, who knows. But overall maintenance for a goat isn't that much.
I honestly never thought that I would ever be giving goat advice, but if I can help in any way, I'm there!!!
Sheesh, it really is the off season for us, isn't it!!! lol