As someone who dreams of owning both at some point, I’m extremely excited about this topic.
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I refused goats after hearing nightmare stories about them being escape artists and from experience of borrowing my sisters to clear weeds (all they did was eat my trees instead). I have a Dexter cow and her calf and she’s due in September for her second calf! Love her and her milk!
2 months ago | 1
I know folks who have owned both. And many who have only owned goats. That’s the category I fall into. We got our first goats when we lived in Canada because our seventh child was allergic to cows milk & as I was pregnant with number eight I had to wean him. We moved to the states shortly after our eighth child was born & it was almost two decades before we owned goats again. This time it was simply because I wanted access to goat milk so as to make soap - having been influenced by your video about your daughter’s soap making. Unfortunately after falling& breaking my ribs - I was unable to milk our goat after she birthed beautiful triplets. A friend took them to care for them while I healed but then they ate something poison TWICE on her farm! (She’s own both cows/goats) They survived & came home! In the end I gifted them to a family who has six children and many goats as we were moving so as to be closer to our adult children and many grands. I hope to try again in a year or so. Wish me luck and hopefully no more falling with broken bones! 😅 For now I’m content with my tiny flock of chickens, two LGDs, 13 children and 18 grands. Still homeschooling my youngest! (Who likes kids but not adult goats so 🤷♀
2 months ago | 1
I have both. Goats are less expensive and in my community you can sell them quite easily, but selling beef is very lucrative as well. If we were allowed to sell raw milk where I live, cows would be 100% more cost effective. I think you can break even with both, but making money on either requires skill and strategy.
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I don’t really own the animals to profit financially, but to offer my family sustenance. That being the case, if I put out one round bale, my goats would eat it slower than my cows. And I have a lot more goats than cows. I do give my goats some alfalfa pellets, but that is still less than the amount of round bales my cows eat (in winter). During the summer when we have pasture, the cows to get hay. So they’re free. But they still use more in hay in the winter months than my goats consume.
2 months ago | 1
If RFK jr makes drops restrictions on raw milk, "make money" might change dramatically
2 months ago | 0
This really depends on the type of land you have. Do you have access to browse for the goats or pasture for the cows? Or do you have to feed hay year round.
2 months ago | 0
Horses the big money pit- goats wool profit marginal. Cows lot of work- soooo i have pets
2 months ago | 0
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