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Goats Vs Cows | Which Is More Profitable?Are you considering starting a livestock farm but unsure whether to invest in goats or cows? In this video I compare...
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- Aire Farms
Cows vs Goats: What's better and what's more profitable? How you answer this question will help you choose which dairy animal is the right for your homestead...
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- Best Farming Tips (bestfarmingtips.com)
Mar 5, 2020 · Is there really a comparison between goats and cows? They're both pretty awesome. I might just really love agriculture but I'm always up for discussing the pros and cons of goats vs. cows. If you're considering adding one or both of these to your farm here are a few things to weigh.
- Goat vs Cow: Which Is Easier to handle?
- Which One Costs More to own?
- Goat vs Cow Milk: What’s The difference?
- Bulls vs Bucks
- What About Meat?
- What Do You Do When One Dies?
- Which One Is Right For You?
Goats are easier to handle simply because they are smaller than cows. If you did not grow up on a farm, where you got used to handling cattle, goats will be less intimidating. We bought Irish dexter cows because they are the smallest breed, but I quickly learned that it didn’t really matter whether a cow weighed 700 pounds or 1500 pounds, if you ha...
It is less expensive to get started with goats because they do not require the heavy-duty handling equipment needed for safe handling of cattle. Our lives would have been easier if we had a proper cow stanchion for milking, which is heavy duty metal, or if we had a squeeze chute for veterinary work, which is also heavy duty metal. A chute costs tho...
The first thing we have to talk about is taste. A lot of people have heard that goat milk tastes nasty. This can be true, but it is usually avoidable. The bad taste comes from completely harmless skin bacteria that winds up in the milk. Bacteria multiply, and they don’t taste good. Mineral deficiencies can also lead to milk that’s less than delicio...
This comparison would not be complete without talking about bulls and bucks. If you want milk, the cow or the doe has to get pregnant and give birth, which means you either need a male of the species or you need to do artificial insemination. We’ve never done AI, but we have owned plenty of bucks and a few bulls. If you want to do AI, you need to h...
We had been vegetarians for 14 years when we realized we needed to butcher some of our roostersto bring peace back to the barnyard. Then we had too many sheep, so we started eating lamb, and we had no problem butchering the steer from one of our cows. But for years I insisted that I could never eat a goat because they were too much like pets to me....
When most people are getting started with livestock, this is one question they never consider. They may decide they will never eat any of their animals, or they may decide all of them will go to the locker at some pre-determined age. However, sooner or later, you will walk out to the pasture and find one dead. On the rare occasion when a goat dies ...
We prefer to raise goats for milk because they are smaller than cows, eat less, poop less, cost less to buy and feed, are easier to handle (whether alive or dead), and produce a more manageable amount of milk. But if you have a large family and need a few gallons of milk per day, and you want to make cheese, yogurt, and ice cream, then a cow may be...
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Why I like Cows BETTER Than Goats. Milk goats seem to be all the range in homesteading right now, but what about the family cow. Here’s the three (or four) reasons I prefer a milk cow over a...
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- Justin Rhodes
Oct 25, 2021 · The choice between cows and goats is a difficult one, and you will need to consider a number of key factors that can radically influence the outcome of the dairy farm. Lets look at 12 factors that will help you determine what's better and what's more profitable, raising cows or raising goats.
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Sep 14, 2023 · Both cows and goats require a balanced diet to stay healthy and productive. However, cows tend to have a higher feed and supplement cost compared to goats. Cows have a larger appetite and need a higher quantity of feed to meet their nutritional requirements.
