Pygmy goats

[ozarksnick]

I'm curious about getting a couple pygmy goats for my new homestead.

I'd like to know how much space two goats would need. Looking at the farm place tonight I figure I could set aside a space about 15 yards by 40 yards, which comes to about 5,400 square feet, which is a little more than a tenth of an acre.

From what I've read and heard so far, I'm afraid that that would not be nearly enough space for the goats.

Thanks in advance for your replies.

[ozarksnick]

They have two pigmy goats at the feed store here in a waste area they have. it's about the size you have and they do fine. They've cleaned the weeds out of that area really well. So I imagine that's plenty of space, but I am no expert.

Have the goats completely denuded the area of any and all vegetation?

[bookwormom]

Sure you can keep them there, just expect to feed them. My mom kept a couple of milk goats in less space, we had to scrounge for goat feed in the wild for them. I know some folks who kept a goat on a city balcony after the war in Germany. The children had to walk along the railroad tracks and every spare place and gather feed. One day the goat was gone and everyone was upset. they searched the neighborhood, wondered who, how. then the mother had to check something in the bedroom, and there in the bed was the goat, sound asleep. My own goats would be happy with that amount of space, as long as I bring food. They hang around the barn all day, calling for me to come.

[eeyore]

I raised Pygmies for a few years. I spoiled mine, i raised 15 on about an acre, gave them access to hay and some grain each night, and of course water.

They will kill the trees in the area unless you protect them and mine needed a 5 foot min. fence they cleared a 4 footer with regularity. They do have some posinous plants that will hurt them, read up on them and clear them out.

They will clear an area of just about everything, but are affraid of tall grass and won't venture into it, but eat the edges untill they work back through it or make them paths.