Both of these breeds are excellent for producing milk, said Grant. For localities that have a weight limit on goats in residential neighborhoods, the two kinds that Grant says will stay under 100 pounds are mini la Manchas and mini Oberhaslis. Goats that stay small at maturity are smart choices for backyard environments, Grant said. They don't feel safe and secure when there's just one goat." A single goat also may express its unhappiness by frequent and loud bleating. "Of course, it never occurred to me that goats are herd animals. Why's he acting so strange?" That's when she got her answer. "So I started asking people on Facebook and Twitter. "I had heard from so many people that goats are really friendly, but ours wasn't," said Peterson. Peterson and her husband already had chickens, ducks and a potbellied pig, so they figured how much trouble could it be to keep a goat for a couple of months.
"They wanted to eat him for Christmas dinner, so they brought him to our place to keep" until it was time to come back and get him. "Somebody gave him to them, and they all live in apartments," Peterson said. Their landscape crew - she is a landscape designer, he is a landscape contractor - showed up with a terrified male goat trussed up in the back of their pickup in October 2012. This was something Austin, Texas, urban farmers Jennie Peterson and her husband, Brett Davis, learned through an unexpected experience.
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