[Avna]

I suggest you read up a little on goats.

First, goats do not prefer grass, they are browsers, like deer. They prefer to eat shrubs, trees, vines, brambles, and many weeds that grazers do not. However the idea that "goats eat anything" is a complete and utter pile of hooey. They are the pickiest eaters of all the livestock I have ever kept. They also, in nature, eat a little of one thing and then a little of another thing and so forth. This is one reason why it is more difficult to poison goats than some other livestock.

I kept goats for about 10 years and hopefully will again. I eventually settled on feeding straight alfalfa free choice, and cut browse for them (pine, fir, and oak branches, prunings of most kinds of trees but not cherry). They were also foraged in the forest, and grudgingly, some grass pasture.

I've had them refuse grass hays that were not quite right according to them. They are very opinionated creatures.

Also, Nubians and Boers, both African-derived breeds, have large floppy ears, the better to disperse heat. Other breeds have smaller upright ears. Goats' ears don't flop unless they are a specific breed or cross of that breed. They don't 'lower' their ears like dogs.

 

[walkinthewalk]

Well, you have told me what I need to know and would have never guessed ------goats are opinionated and picky.

They love my hay and they do not even like the great quality hay from the other feed store. I need to borrow one of them during hay season --- if the goat eats the hay then I know my horses will too

I will have to stress to their new owners that once these last two bales are gone, they need to find another source. There's a part of me that chuckles over this, as the goat husband has always made fun of DH about my horses being so picky and not eating just anything I thought they should eat ----------

Yessssss, there is justice, lollol.

That isn't as evil as it sounds --- DH rebuilt a transmission for Goat Husband's race car. The wife is sweet as can be and is giving me eggs from her new chickens, plus she's the vet tech where my dogs and cats go for surgeries.