Goats!

[i-love-nev]

Originally Posted by Luvthempigs

Two things here- chickens only lay for a few years of their lives- not for their entire lives. Also, if you want milk from a dairy goat they must be bred, so you have to raise the kids too, as well as decide what you will do with them.

I dont care about the eggs, and my friend has two british saanen goats that have never been bred and she uses them for dairy goats....I know many people who have done the same.

[steve_and_pigs]

Originally Posted by i-love-nev

I dont care about the eggs, and my friend has two british saanen goats that have never been bred and she uses them for dairy goats....I know many people who have done the same.

Are you sure that your friends' goats were not bred before they got them? If not, do you have any more info on this? I'm just curious. One day I'd like to have few goats

[Luvthempigs]

I'm wondering if your friends just left out the fact that they had to be bred....

Seriously, unless you're doing some complicated and hard on the animal manipulation of hormones, dairy animals must be bred to produce milk.

[i-love-nev]

No, they were never bred. My and my friend raised them from day 1 (abandoned) and I see them ever 1-3 days so there is no way they could be pregnant without me knowing, and my friend would have told me if she bred them. I would have also seen the kids. I will try find a bit more info on them later, I am just going out to get piggy hay .