I always thought if I got into homesteading that milk goats made a lot more sense than milk cows. You get quite a bit of milk out of a 100 pound goat, and they eat anything. Pasture them in a burdock patch or raspberry tangle and they will devour it.
My wife wanted a milk goat. Then I told her that when I go camping or traveling, she could stay home to milk it. They have to be milked twice a day every day. Milking guarantees that you'll never leave home for more than 12 hours for as long as you have the animal. .She changed her mind about the goat.
