Imagine walking the goat every morning before going to work or watching television with the goat on your lap. Weird idea? Goats have been our pets for centuries, just like dogs. About 10,000 years ago, people in the Middle East domesticated the wild Capra Aegagrus (Bezoar goat). Keeping goats slowly expanded to other goats and areas. In a few centuries, the goat conquered Asia, Africa and Europe. There are now about 450 million goats in the world, divided over about 200 breeds. You will find them everywhere, except at the North Pole and South Pole. Nor in the International Space Station, yet ..read more

Harry Houdini was the Greatest Of All Time escape artist. Goats are the Houdinis of nature. You would almost think that Houdini himself had some goat blood in him. That would explain a lot… If you keep goats, you have to be smart. Because goats are far from stupid. They are very curious and inquisitive. They chew on everything and climb on everything. Goats have highly developed senses. They have great hearing, excellent eyesight, and a good sense of smell and taste. The fence around a goat pasture must be sturdy. Goats will try anything to crawl under or climb over it. If they spot juicy tre ..read more

Step into a Goatfully farm and you'll be greeted by a stable full of grinning goats. From small to large. A goat is mature enough to become a mother when she is about 7 months old and weighs at least 35 kg. Goats are fertile in the fall and give birth after five months in the spring. The kids take their first steps into the world during the most wonderful time of the year. The female baby goats are the new generation of the farm. They are raised to be dairy goats, just like their mothers. If there are too many goats, they are sold to another farm. They grow up there as dairy goats. Their br ..read more

Dutch goat milk has a unique guarantee of quality: QualiGoat. Naturally, the milk for Goatfully also meets the highest quality standards. The well-being of our goats is very important to our farmers. QualiGoat sets the quality standards that farmers must meet and checks each farm for compliance. For example, KwaliGeit has milk production, cooling, animal welfare, feed, and drinking water criteria. On top of this, we pay an extra price for milk of the highest quality through our collection company Holland Goat Milk,  The milk is collected by our own drivers. Each shipment of milk is rigo ..read more

Goatfully is made from the milk of Dutch goats. They live on small-scale family farms in the middle of lush Dutch landscape. The Goatfully family spans 50 farms. The goat farmers have about 1,000 dairy goats each. Almost all of them are white Saanen goats. The Saanen goat is originally from Switzerland but also feels at home in the Netherlands. Sometimes you come across other breeds on the farm, for example, the black and white British Alpine goat, the brown-black French Alpine goat or the brown Anglo-Nubian goat. Goats sink their teeth into almost everything. Outside they prefer to eat leav ..read more

Goats are natural climbers. In the mountains they clamber up steep rock faces to look for food. When danger threatens, they are gone surprisingly quickly. Chèvres en équilibre - goats balancing on a flexible steel ribbon Never compete with a goat when climbing. You will lose for sure. They can climb and jump faster than any human. There is nothing that makes goats in a meadow happier than something to climb on. And that can't be too crazy. Even on a flexible steel ribbon, they stay on all fours effortlessly. Try that on two legs!   The incredible ibex defies gravity and climbs a dam | F ..read more

You might think of goats as small and cute But… many goat breeds are larger and heavier than humans.  Sure, there are lots of little goats. Dwarf goats are the smallest specimens at 50 cm and 20 kg. If you have a really big lawn, they'll make a great pet. But… get more than one. Goats are herd animals and a lonely goat is unhappy. An average goat weighs about 80 kg. Several species are much larger. The African Boer goat can weigh up to 140 kg. The Nubian goat even reaches 150 kg. You don't want to wrestle with that. Fortunately, the big goats are also big darlings.  ..read more

Hear bagpipes, think Scotland. Actually, you should be thinking of a goat. And not just to Scotland. Here is the story… The bagpipe is a very old instrument. This unique sound cannon originated somewhere in India, Pakistan and Iran around 2,000 BC. Alexander the Great brought the bagpipes to the west and of course first to Greece. The bagpipes did not make it to Scotland until well into Roman times. In Spain, Serbia, Albania and other countries, the bagpipe has been part of popular culture for centuries. In the south of Europe, the bagpipe is called Gaita or Gaida. That's no coincidence. In th ..read more

People come in all shapes and sizes. Big and small. Bald and hairy. Floppy ears and pout lips. But every goat is not the same either! There are about 200 goat breeds in the world. Most goats in the Netherlands are Saanen goats. These snow white goats are the milk champions. They give the most milk of all goats, about three to five liters per day. Yet they are not bigger than an average goat and are pretty slender. All Goatfully milk is made by Saanen goats. Nubian goats have the biggest floppy ears. The Nubians are also the largest goats in the world. Female animals can weigh between 80 and ..read more

Goat milk is a natural source of casein. But what exactly is casein and why do you need it? Casein is the main protein in milk. Goat milk also contains a lot of casein. Just to wander off into details a bit… most casein is β-casein and the β-casein in goat's milk is pure A2 -casein. Therefore, goat milk is A2 milk.  Why is casein so good? Your body can easily break down casein into essential amino acids. Your body needs the amino acids to synthesize its own proteins. To cut a long story short: more casein = more building materials for proteins. You might be thinking: bêêêh! But read on ..read more