If you want to keep your grass short, a goat isn't your best choice. Grass isn't on the top of their list of favorite foods. They'll be happier eating your rose bushes, given the chance. They're usually quite picky about what they eat. However, if there isn't much else around, I suppose they'll happily munch on your lawn. (I'm looking for a picture that shows all three of our smaller pasture areas - the front has female goats and llamas - no grass present, just dirt. The middle area has male goats - plenty of grass. The outside area has a male llama and an alpaca - very little grass.
About the 4th or 5th picture down on our
website
Get a llama and you'll never have to mow again. I'll have one for sale next spring, if it's a male.
But, if you're interested, this fall we're expecting (6?) fainting goat (myotonic goat) kids. Unfortunately, our nubian buck got loose in the girls' area and we may have some "droopy-tonics" - A cross between Droopy the goat and the myotonic goats. All the offspring born around the time that he could be the father are going to be DNA tested for paternity. Any droopy-tonics will be for sale dirt cheap; we haven't got a clue what they would be like. The fainting goats are generally very gentle and one of the easiest to keep because they're unable to jump fences. (Although, in discussions with a number of other breeders, we're aware of one pain in the neck male that was sold from farm to farm several years ago; not a friendly guy.) Nubian goats are among the friendliest goats alive, especially if they've been socialized with people from birth. I'd never leave the horns on a nubian. I can stand in the middle of 28 goats with long sharp pointy horns without a worry in the world, that is, except for the worry that the nubian is going to sneak up from behind me and jump on my back or shoulders to get all the attention.
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