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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lou" data-source="post: 4297544" data-attributes="member: 51567">OOC:  It looks like 1500 goats should feed about 220 people a pound of goat meat a day indefinitely, until they are sick of goat meat.  The goats will also graze over roughly 250 acres.Milk and meat goat varieites weigh 100-300 pounds as adults, so shipping may be a problem for a herd of 1500 goats.  Just mature goats (just over 1 yr) only need 1/3 lb of grain a day until pregnant, and does will kid in yr 2 (some in yr 1).  Bucks only need 1 lb/day, while breeding does need just over 2 lbs a day on average for milk production...44 breeding bucks, 62 established breeding does, 93 kids, 1301 yearling (mature) does (1500 goats) with 90 days of grain will take roughly 97 tons (70 goats/27 grain) to ship.Goats were easy...and they eat everything but egg shells.  Where are the numbers for fowl?[sblock=for Leif]The missing number is how many people you want to feed goat meat and for how long.  If you want to feed 100 people 1 lb of goat meat each day of the year, then you need roughly 100*365*1=36500 lbs per year.  If you get 45 lbs of meat per kid, that requires 812 kids a year.  To get that many kids, you need 649 does and from 5-26 bucks, say 21, for a total of 670 goats.  You will get an additional 162 kids a year to replace members of the herd and keep the herd numbers relatively constant.[/sblock]</blockquote>