I don’t know anything about sheep but have raised goats. Goats are poop machines so your house better be up wind of them. They don’t have as much meat on them than sheep if that’s what you’re looking at.
Ah, thanks bgill. You’re always a fountain of information, and I appreciate it. I love lamb, so that may be the clincher, but really I’m trying to look at an overall easy maintainance animal. We currently have about 50 goats on the property, but they’re not ours. (I’m moving, hence I’ll be able to get some of my own). I have never noticed the smell, but ut may be because of the several hundred cattle within a few hundred yards, and 50 or so within about 200 feet of the front door, lol. The smell from the cattle used to bother me, and still does when the snow first melts, but other than that, I don’t even notice it.
Now, dog doo, that’s terrible, and I can smell it at 50 yards.
Do you happen to know if goat droppings are a pretty good fertilizer? Do they require a lot of maintence? Is there much work involved in them. It doesn’t seem like it, since the people that take care of these goats seldom come by, especially in some months of the year. Can you tell me, does a goat require a lot of room? Sorry to ask so many questions, I’m just very curious, as it’ll be a semi-major investment.