They put GOATS on our lease...

[Smart]

We have about 50 on 2400 acres and they don't bother us. They are bounced around the 2400, the 1100 and 200 acres pastures. Of course, we all have feedpens and they get placed on the adjacent property during deer season every year. About the only problem we have is the occasional whiff of goat stank if we are near them.....lol

[Birddog]

They will eat anything and I mean anything and every thing, even the wires on the back of your truck to hook up you trailors,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[D C]

Our place is 1350 acres so Im sure they will be everywhere.

Damon, we were thanking that they would be gone by october but thats around the time they will be bred and ready to drop apparently so I doubt he will move em back to the home place.

[Roscoe]

Not sure how big the place is. 80 goats on 1500+ acres is an annoyance, but probably not much more - you'd get an occasionally screwed up hunt if they come thru.

Now, 80 goats on 300 acres. . . . that will be a grand PITA

^^^This^^^

Competition on a food source with your deer is never a good thing though.

[MQ32Shooter]

Sounds like targets of opportunity!

[Booger74]

Are they ruuning a dofg with them to protect goats from predators? If so; the dog will run everything off. We hunted a place in Llano County that had great numbers of deer and hogs. The years he ran the goats (3 out of 20 years) we never fire a shot at wildlife; not even coons. Gost will run from feeder to feeder eating whatever they can. The dog will run with them to run off anything that is not a Goat. I even saw the dog chasing a group of eight hogs one day. NOT GOOD. Feed pens will not help.

[wellingtontx]

Good luck keeping them out of feeder pens and off your feeders. Ever seen a feeder mechanism that has been rammed 100 times by a goat ? Not good at all.

[Codie]

Do you know any good goat recipes?

[D C]

Do you know any good goat recipes?

Not really but Im not going to waste a good broadhead on one of those nasty things

You going to Nanza??

[Snakelover]

Hmmm... just found this. I guess deer are more adaptable than I realized...



(exerpt from "White-tailed Deer Habitat: Ecology and Management on Rangelands")

Still... it's not a good thing to force deer off their preferred browse and onto something less preferred. I would imagine the deer would rather be over on the neighbor's pasture where they get to eat what they want. We all know that the most dominant animals get first choice of habitat. Therefore, the dominant whitetails will probably move to greener pastures (pun intended), leaving you with a higher percentage of the subordinate culls and rejects. Just a theory.

[cbrown]

We have them:

Make sure you have feeder pens.
Make sure you feeder doesn't throw corn outside of the feeder pen or the goats will come running to the sound of the feeder.
The billy will eventually learn to jump into the feeder pen.

I am so sick of them that I this may be my last year on this lease. We have good deer but you can't hunt them with goats everywhere. I hate them with a passion. I would take hogs over goats anyday. At least you can shoot the hogs.

[Smart]

Feed pens will not help.

I disagree.....

[Badboypfg]

I've never hunted a property with livestock on it, so I'm curious also.

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[Blue Tick]

The lease I just got off of was covered in goats, sheep and a few cattle. The owners man said there was just a few, but I don't count just a few when there's several herds of them. They will camp out under your feeders and act just like a hoover vacuum. When the feeders would go off, it was like a stampede with them running in.

[Snakelover]

By the way, a hectare is roughly 2.5 acres. So when the article I cited talks about a maximum stocking rate of 6 goats per hectare, that equals 90 goats on your 1350 acre property. That's a MAX. If they stock more than that, I'd say you're in serious trouble as far as deer hunting opportunity.