There are several different types of goats and the breed you need depends entirely on what you intend to do with them. If you're looking for meat perhaps the Boer, if for milk, you may want to look at the Nubian. Our goats are mainly for keeping the surrounding pasture cleaned up, so breed was not so important. Ours are a definite mixture between pygmy and some other white/red mixture. Only one of our goats has horns. When we first bought them, we would get brown and black mixed in with the red/white but we finally bred the brown /black out for the most part. After a while, we decided not to breed them anymore so we kept the females and sold the males.
For more information check out this link on goats at
http://home.earthlink.net/~lureynolds/breeds.html.
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