How to Attract a Goat

Attracting a goat is much like attracting other semi-domesticated animals. If you can present them with something to eat, drink or lick, there is a reasonable chance you can encourage them to come toward you or to a certain area. Like deer, goats love to lick and consume salt. Their ability to find it is so keen that they they will follow hikers through the woods, licking up urine to consume the salt it contains.

Things You'll Need

  • Salt lick
  • Salt
  • Hay
  • Grain (corn, barley, wheat)
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Instructions

    • 1

      Place a salt lick in the area you want the goats to visit. Goats compulsively seek out salt wherever possible. A salt lick is a large block of salt roughly the size of a brick or cinder block. The goats will frequent the area to acquire the treat.

    • 2

      Leave a trail of salt to encourage the goat to follow or make a certain path. Use salt to encourage them to visit a smaller area if the goats are spread out in a large pen.

    • 3

      Use hay to entice the goats. Goats eat hay, and the length of hay makes it easy to hold in your hand to offer the goat, without fear it might nip your fingers.

    • 4

      Offer the goat grain. Grain is a goat's other food of choice. Corn, barley or wheat makes a good menu for a goat. If you are visiting goats who are comfortable with human contact, you can hold the grain in your flattened palm and let them eat from your hand. Otherwise, hold out a bucket to bring them close but without direct contact.