Nutritious goats’ milk goes with the flow

The goat was one of the first animals to be domesticated by humankind, and it didn’t take long for these emerging farmers to realise just how adaptable the goat was.

A doe can, for instance, convert a wide range of vegetation into nutritious milk, utilising a wider variety of plants than a sheep or a cow. And given the right diet the dairy goat can provide a tenth of her body weight in milk every day.

The goat can survive in challenging climates where the larger domestic animal cannot and is a lot less hard on land like ours that can all too often be wet or boggy.