You can run six goats for each cow unit a section holds. The rancher points out that raising angoras is not as easy as managing other hardier animals. Besides the work required to maintain 90 miles of woven wire fencing, he talks about the other hazards of growing goats. Woven wire fence keeps the goats in and helps keep the javalina pigs out. And a woven fence doesn't keep out coyotes or eagles, two other major angora goat predators.
Predators are a major reason there are fewer angora goats in Texas today.
Another reason is the intense work required to move the animals' hair to an uncertain world market. Unlike sheep, angora goats are sheared twice a year. It takes Rousselot's roundup crew three days to get the goats out of the brush and down to the shearing station. They're a lot smaller than a cow, so it's easier for them to dodge a horseman and go anywhere except where they are being driven to go. They have a regular name for each of those dogs, but in the frustration of brush popping goats those dogs get called a lot of other names.