How to Raise Goats on Your Small Farm Goats can be a great animal to add to your farm. They're easy to handle and produce lots of delicious and healthful milk as well as low-fat meat. Plus, goat manure makes great fertilizer . Should You Raise Goats? One doe will produce 90 quarts of fresh milk every month for 10 months of the year. That said, you can't keep just one doe - you'll need to keep two goats, a doe, and a wether or two does, at a minimum, so they don't get lonely. Each castrated male goat, or meat wether, will produce 25 to 40 pounds of meat. And each bred doe will give birth to, at a minimum, one kid annually. Goats don't need fussy housing, but they do require some serious fencing to keep them where they belong. They will graze pasture but are great browsers, who will eat bushes and other brush. Dairy goats will require some hay and commercial goat feed , though, too, so you'll need to be prepared to feed them. Meat goats d...