# How much does a live goat usually go for?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 16, 2008, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-does-a-live-goat-usually-go-for/468262 "2008-10-16T20:22:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-does-a-live-goat-usually-go-for/468262/41 "2008-10-21T04:16:48Z")

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> [@dynamitedave](#):
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> While feeding one a handful of goat crack, the others will be chewing your clothes, opening **the ice cream container full of goat nuts** , or just plain trying to knock you or their herdmate over.

I won’t ask how you came to collect their nuts in an ice cream container, but it certainly explains their bad temper toward you.

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**Author:** ![dynamitedave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ed655f/32.png) [@dynamitedave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dynamitedave)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-does-a-live-goat-usually-go-for/468262/42 "2008-10-21T05:13:58Z")

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> [@Fear\_Itself](#):
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> I won’t ask how you came to collect their nuts in an ice cream container, but it certainly explains their bad temper toward you.

Heh

Goat nuts aka Goat Crack aka [NRM Multifeed Nuts](http://www.nrm.co.nz/index.php/ps_pagename/product/pi_categoryid/7/pi_productid/46) in case anyone’s concerned about just what they get fed 😛

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**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-does-a-live-goat-usually-go-for/468262/43 "2008-10-21T12:22:14Z")

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> [@Shagnasty](#):
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> They are fun to wrestle with too. A really stupid ram will keep going all day even if it loses every single time.

How does one wrestle with a goat? Is it like wrestling with a dog or cat or ferret? (That is, do you flip them over on their backs and have them grab your arms with their paws and teeth while you give them a good-natured scruffing?)

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**Author:** ![diggleblop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@diggleblop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diggleblop)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-does-a-live-goat-usually-go-for/468262/44 "2008-10-21T16:06:44Z")

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Just remember, goats will eat everyfuckingthing. Your plants, flowers, car tires, all of it will be gone. My grandparents had a huge farm with lots of goats and those little bastards would always get in her garden somehow and eat her flowers and such. You would go out there and there would be nothing but a garden full of sticks and twigs and branches. My granny used to get so mad… lol

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