Goats are active by nature, except for lying and ruminating, and spend most of their time in stop-and-go free sports. The liveliness of lambs is particularly prominent, and they often have movements such as forelimbs flying, standing, jumping and playing. Goats have strong climbing and jumping abilities. According to this habit of goats, a spacious playground should be set up when raising goats in the house, and the walls of the enclosure and playground should be of sufficient height.

2, strong adaptability and wide appetite.

Compared with other domestic animals, goats have stronger adaptability to ecology. Goats are distributed in plateau or plain, forest or desert, tropical or cold zone, coastal or inland areas. Goats are widely distributed on the earth, far exceeding other herbivorous livestock. There are no sheep in tropical and subtropical areas such as Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan, but a certain number of goats are raised. Goats can tolerate water shortage and high temperature environment because of their high utilization rate of water.

Goat's foraging ability is extremely strong. It can make use of forage that livestock and sheep can't use. It can feed on all kinds of forage, branches and leaves of trees, crop structure, agricultural and sideline products, by-products of food processing and many shrubs, and the types of plants it eats are far more than other livestock.

3, like dry, hate wet.

Goats like drying as much as sheep, so they are suitable for living in dry and cool areas. In hot and humid environment, goats are susceptible to many diseases, especially pneumonia and parasitic diseases. However, the adaptability of goats to high temperature and high humidity environment is obviously stronger than that of sheep, and they can still live and reproduce normally under the climate conditions of high temperature and high humidity in summer in southern China.

4, gregarious, like cleaning.

Goats also live in groups. Whether eating grass or feeding in the house, group members always like to act together. Among them, the sheep farm with older age, many offspring and strong body acts as the protagonist of the "head sheep" and leads the whole group to act in unison. Generally speaking, all members of a flock of sheep can live in harmony except that rams occasionally fight for their spouses during the breeding season.

Goats like sheep like to be clean. They smell with their noses before eating. They don't like to eat any feed with peculiar smell, pollution, feces or corruption, and they don't like to eat burnt grass. Goats also like clean water. When feeding goats in the house, the forage should be placed in the forage rack to reduce the waste of forage, and the drinking water should be kept clean and changed frequently.

5. Early sexual maturity and strong reproductive ability

Goats have strong reproductive ability, mainly manifested in early sexual maturity and multiple births. Goats generally reach sexual maturity at the age of 5~6 months, and can be bred at the age of 6~8 months. Most kinds of goats can produce 2~3 lambs per fetus, and the average lamb production rate is over 200%.

6, bold and smart, easy to set up.

Goats are brave, sensitive and easy to understand people's intentions. When herding sheep on the grassland, the shepherd will choose castrated goats to train them as the first sheep.