They are a very calm animal and make excellent pets. They are a herding animal, and should therefore be kept with at least two or three of their own kind. Females are polyestrous, which means they come into heat year round. Gestation period is 145-151 days. They are excellent mother's, and kids are seldom weaned earlier than 3 months of age.
Twins are the norm, but they frequently have triplets.
Quadruplets and quintuplets are also possible. Goats have been treated unkindly in the movies and cartoons. They do not eat tin cans but rather require good feed. They do however prefer many weeds to grass and will do an excellent job of cleaning up an enclosure that has gone to sunflowers, pig weeds or fire weeds. Almost everyone who keeps fainting goats feeds them alfalfa.