harlow wrote:mausermate wrote:Did you know that Goat meat is the most highly consumed meat on the planet.
And growing I think.
I've read a number of farmers are switching from breeding sheep for wool to goat because it's easier/faster/more profitable to sell them for the meat alone instead of wool and meat with a sheep.
Goats are hard to handle. In fact they are buggers of things in big numbers. Handling facilities and fences need to be top notch to contain and work with goats. Switching from Sheep to Goats may be the case with some smaller hobbyist type graziers however most of us still stick with the mainstream of Lamb and Wool production or Beef.
Sheep are still profitable here in Australia if you are on your game. Price per kg on farm for lamb is far ahead of goat at the moment. Further, if you have a wool clip to add much the better. Wool has had a rocky road over the past 20 years or so since the early 90's crash. But....it's coming back...I hope. GET REAL! GET WOOL. If you want a great product and help the Aussie economy, buy wool, not some crap made out of melted down coke bottles.
I did say most consumed on the planet. Not here is AUS. We mostly eat Chicken, followed by Beef then Lamb then Pork.