Small goats find popularity on urban farms
03/23/2010 |
From upi.com:
As urban farming gains strength, small goats are proving popular as entertaining and intelligent pets in backyards throughout the United States.
While many communities still ban goats, other cities such as Seattle, Portland, Ore., and Oakland, Calif., are changing zoning laws to accommodate small goats.
In Portland, the newspaper Willamette Week predicted goats will replace chickens as must-have backyard companions this year.
Goats have become so "omnipresent" that "it's time to recognize them as the pet poised to break out as most likely to show up in your neighbor's yard," Willamette Week wrote in its 2010 predictions story.
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