Philippe,
Regarding your points below -
i. It's important to understand that showing a goat a fence is like
showing a person a crossword puzzle. It's simply something that needs solving.
ii. You don't have to milk the females. We had female goats for years
and never milked them.
iii. None of the females we had ever had the offensive smell you get
off some billy goats.
Goats do have the advantage that they don't crop the vegetation as
close to the ground as sheep. You shouldn't have a problem with the
few sheep you have, but there are hillsides in Ireland that have been
overgrazed by sheep, denuded of vegetation and then become muddy landslips.
Mike
At 16:12 06/06/2021, you wrote:
As I answered to the same suggestion about goats on the other list,
goats were shortlisted here too.
But
i. they tend to escape at the first opportunity,
ii. you have to milk the females
iii. the males have a knack at charging tourists, and tenders, which
we wanted to avoid.
iv. they DO stink ;-)
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