Goats are active by nature, except for lying and ruminating, they spend most of their time in a stop-and-go free and unfettered movement. The liveliness of lambs is particularly prominent, and there are often movements such as forelimbs flying, standing, jumping and playing. Goats have a strong ability to climb and jump. According to this habit of goats, spacious playgrounds should be set up when feeding goats in houses, and the walls of pens and playgrounds should be of sufficient height.

(2) wide food intake and strong adaptability

Compared with other domestic animals, goats have stronger adaptability to the ecological environment. Goats are distributed in mountains or plains, forests or deserts, tropical or cold zones, coastal or inland areas, and their geographical distribution on the earth is far wider than that of other herbivorous domestic animals. There are no sheep in tropical and subtropical areas such as Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan in China, but a certain number of goats are raised. Goat's high utilization rate of water enables it to endure water shortage and high temperature environment.

Goat's foraging ability is extremely strong, and it can make use of the forage grass that can't be used by domestic animals and sheep, and can feed on all kinds of forage grass, branches and leaves of trees, crop straws, many shrubs, agricultural and sideline products and by-products of food processing. The types of plants it feeds on account for 88% of the number of tested species, far more than other domestic animals. Goats also have higher forage selection ability than sheep and other herbivorous livestock, and have the ability to choose different kinds of forage or different parts of the same forage according to their physical needs.

(3) like dry, hate wet.

Goats like sheep like to be dry, so they are suitable to live in dry and cool areas. In hot and humid environment, goats are prone to various diseases, especially pneumonia and parasitic diseases. However, the adaptability of goats to high temperature and high humidity environment is obviously higher than that of sheep, and goats can still live and reproduce normally under the climate conditions of high temperature and high humidity in summer in southern China.

(4) Good sociability, like cleaning.

Goats are also gregarious. No matter grazing or house feeding, members of 1 group always like to move together. Among them, the older, more offspring and stronger sheep often play the leading role of "head sheep" and lead the whole group to act in unison. In general, all members of 1 flock can live in harmony, except for the occasional struggle between rams for spouses during the breeding season. Goats, like sheep, like to be clean. They smell with their noses before eating. They don't like to eat any feed with peculiar smell, pollution, feces or corruption, or trampled grass. Goats also like clean drinking water. When feeding goats in the house, the forage should be placed in the straw rack to reduce the waste of forage, and the drinking water should be kept clean and changed frequently.

(5) Early sexual maturity and strong reproductive ability.

Goats have strong reproductive ability, which is mainly manifested in early sexual maturity, multiple births and prolificacy. Goats generally reach sexual maturity at the age of 5 ~ 6 months, and can be first mated at the age of 7 ~ 8 months. Most kinds of goats can give birth to 2 ~ 3 lambs per fetus, and the average lamb yield is over 200%.

(6) bold and dexterous, easy to set up.

Goats are brave, sensitive and easy to understand people's intentions. When herding sheep on the grassland, herders often choose castrated goats for training. As the head sheep, circuses often use goats for wonderful performances.

(7) Love to eat shrubs, which can improve the grassland.

Goats especially like to eat shrub branches and leaves, which are often used in grassland management to control the growth of grassland secondary forests, many shrubs and weeds and promote the growth of gramineous grasses. Therefore, countries with developed grassland animal husbandry often use the feeding habits of goats to manage grasslands.