Quoted from my own plan:

"My reading has indicated that a single goat will provide all of the milk that my family of five could drink on a daily basis (with some to spare in fact). Two goats could do the same, with enough left over to process into butter, cheese and so forth. Goats may be better than cows (unless you have a larger number of survivors requiring a greater volume of milk, and maybe even then, it may be better just to have a greater number of goats) as goats can nourish themselves wholly on natural forage, without requiring the complex mixture of grain feeds that are needed by cows for top milk production, thereby requiring still more cropland. Even milking goats, which do need some grains, still require much less of it than even relatively small cows (2-4 lbs of grain, plus around 3-5 lbs of good quality hay daily for goats as compared to 10 lbs of grain and almost 50 lbs of hay for each dairy cow).

Besides, if you have two goats and one of them gets sick and dies, you still have one goat. But, on the other hand, if you had one cow and IT got sick and died, you'd have bupkis. As a milking goat needs to be bred each season in order to continue producing milk, a few male goats should be retained for this purpose. Any resultant surplus of male offspring would be butchered for meat, as would all those older female goats whose milk or breeding production has declined."

Just thought this might be something worth thinking about.

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