Are goats self sustaining

[Draco]

You will have fat coyotes for sure.

[hopco.boy]

I hate goats.

[TimH]

your biggest challenge will be with predators or dogs.

[jhauling]

They will ruin your fence by constantly rubbing on it to scratch themselves for one. Be prepared to constantly be pulling their heads out of anything they can stick their head in,depending if horned or not. And last they will try as heck to get out no matter what kind of food there is available for them. I had like 6 total at one point until i drove my new truck into the pen to unhook a trailor and decided to leave it there till morning, well every **** goat had made themselves at home on the roof and hood of the truck, can you say CABRITO time.

[Jen-Man]

My oldest son had a gentleman buy his show goat at the local fair one year then donate it back.....lucky me, since there was no way he was going to let us eat it. So I just dumped it in the pasture with my cows. **** thing lived for 8 yrs out there. Never did anything with him and when trouble approached he just hid in the middle of the cows and they would protect him.

[hosskix]

I hate goats.

They are smart in ways they shouldn't be and some of the dumbest creatures in ways that they aughta be smart.
I bought a few to eat mustard weeds one year because I'm allergic to them, they ate everything BUT the mustard weeds, tore up the fence, got in with my horses and fought them off their food, c^@ped all over everything, climbed on my vehicles and trailers...
I gave them away after about 2 months.

[rwoot]

Just my two cents... I have had numerous goats. First what is your reason for getting them, if you want pets they take alot of effort. If you want pasture animals, they are fine, you will suffer some mortality.