Description: Goats may be known as "the poor person's cow", but there are many advantages to raising them. Goats are small and easy for people to keep, and goats can survive in harsh weather conditions and rugged terrain where cows cannot. They can also eat things that cows won't -- although goats don't eat tin cans, as many people think. Wild goats were tamed more than 9,000 years ago, and have provided people with wool, milk, and meat. The author describes what goats are like -- what sounds they make, what they like to eat, how they digest their food, and how they give milk. Readers learn that although goat milk is unusual where we live, goat cheese and goat milk are popular products in many places around the world. The author explains that goat milk is more digestible than cow's milk, and that their playfulness makes them almost like pets for some farm families. Sidebars feature favorite breeds of goats, and a recipe for lemon sherbet -- made from goat milk.

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