Any use for goats?

[JFK_360NoScope]

A bunch of goats joined my colony. I have plenty of food so I don't really want to kill them (or at least all of them) if they have a use. I just wanted to know if there was anything special about them. The wiki doesn't seem to have very much

[Ewell]

If you've got animals you don't want, you could try selling them.

[Wish Granter]

Not really they give milk but barely enought o set of a percent of what they eat. But they worth good money at beginning and are a useful way to lvl animal handling skill as they cant go mad

[Astasia]

Goats are a hybrid milk/meat animal. They are about 30% less efficient than cows in food to milk production, about 60% less productive in milk per animal per day, but breed about 60% faster than cows. If you maintain a herd about twice the size you would of cows, they will eat a similar amount and produce slightly less milk but significantly more meat and leather.

[Wish Granter]

Originally posted by Astasia:

Goats are a hybrid milk/meat animal. They are about 30% less efficient than cows in food to milk production, about 60% less productive in milk per animal per day, but breed about 60% faster than cows. If you maintain a herd about twice the size you would of cows, they will eat a similar amount and produce slightly less milk but significantly more meat and leather.

Men what sheet you people use to know all this stuff, I usally hunt the map by turning hordes of elephants into menhunter, let them destroy the mech clusters for me and then collect theire meat and leather.

[Astasia]

The wiki in this case. I just looked at cows and goats and ballparked the math.

https://rimworldwiki.com/

[ichifish]

Originally posted by Astasia:

Goats are a hybrid milk/meat animal. They are about 30% less efficient than cows in food to milk production, about 60% less productive in milk per animal per day, but breed about 60% faster than cows. If you maintain a herd about twice the size you would of cows, they will eat a similar amount and produce slightly less milk but significantly more meat and leather.

Goats are great. As mentioned, they don’t eat much and breed like crazy, You can get a bunch of meat along with the milk in no time. I usually go for them over cows ‘cause with cows it takes forever to build up a herd.