Who is more destructive?
I suppose it depends where you are and how big the deer are, but for me it’s goats - they can climb fences!
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And eat anything, goats that is. Goats will have a feast after the deer are done and gone.
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Goats are used to control Glossy and European buckthorn. Deer will lightly browse the stuff when really hungry, but certainly will never control or kill it.
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Being that I don’t have any goats around me my vote is for deer
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Goats are more destructive than deer, but I am wondering the reason for your question.
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This sounds like a joke–and I’m waiting for the punchline!
When we bought our farm, we were offered the goats that came with it, which we turned down, because we didn’t want any escaping goats to decimate our new fruit trees.
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Goats by a country mile.
You’ll never walk outside and see a deer standing on your car looking at you like it pays rent. Deer don’t get on the roof of the shed to climb out of the pen.
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Another vote here for goats. Good lord they can wreck trees in a flash. They take a nibble from the bottom, grasp the bark and peal it right up the trunk. The deer that end up in my yard will eat the branch tips and that IMO is not as destructive.
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I have no goats. I have lots of deer problems but one day was just wondering if goats are worse.
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Goats. They’ll eat your clothes right off of you too.
Oh you’re wearing shorts? Not anymore!
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I agree that goats are worse, but they taste so good 
, way better than deer. You can put an electric fence, and enjoy both your fruit and the goats’ meat and milk.
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Deer tastes amazing with the right spices. Not sure how my people make it traditionally but i can never get enough of it. So much so that I’ve considered letting my cousin camp out in my backyard and taking out one of the grazers that have been topping off my plants lol
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If you have a dehydrator, deer makes excellent jerky as well.
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I imagine this applies to goats as well, but have no personal experience.
I’ve only had goat kabobs/curry, which were amazing!
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I saw a goat eat a beer can one time.
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I won’t eat venison anymore. Wild game is way less healthy than farm raised. Consider that deer are grazing on pesticide laden fields all day, and there is no attempt to regulate how many chemicals they ingest. I hear many stories from hunters finding deer with cancerous growths in and on them. With CWD now, it’s an easy call.
CWD has been around sice at least the 1960s.
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I agree about that, goat is delicious, deer an acquired taste.
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