Okay this is what I have learned from living in Afghanistan and how they do what they do.
The goat is one of the smallest domesticated animals within Central Asia which has served many in Afghanistan longer than cattle and sheep. Many due to the terrain or people of Afghanistan. Most Afghans raise Goats for the production of milk, meat and wool, particularly in desert, wooded, cities or mountainous areas of Afghanistan. Most keep or raise goats for their milk, cheese and meat, and sheep for wool and meat. Sheep and Goats are also kept typically for cashmere wool, leather and dung for making money for the household. Goats and Sheep are used for their dung for cooking in the more desert areas of Afghanistan and more people consume goat milk and milk products. Not many Afghanistan’s raise goats for cheese production from goat milk. Goats can survive on all types of bushes, lower trees, desert scrub of the Helmand and western Afghanistan areas. If you keep them on or near your FireBase for food for yourself or ANA you must watch out for (or your care keeper) of over-grazing has destroyed many tree and crops of your local area. I think the biggest breed of goats you will find in Afghanistan is the Cashmere goat breed. Not sure if that is a real world bredd, but that is what Afghans called the goat we had and would eat. There are two different kinds I have seen running wild in Afghanistan, I was told but never did any kind of hunting for meat there. But ANA said they would eat them for food.
I have seen or had three different types of goats in Afghanistan.
In Afghanistan goat milk is valued for the elderly, sick, babies, people with ulcers, and Afghanistan have even feed it to their children with cow milk allergies. Goat milk casein protein and goat milk fat are more easily digested than from cow milk from what I have been told by medic and can help with guys down range. I don’t what basis is behind this statement.
While in Afghanistan I have had and we raised two different types of sheep. Well we didn’t but our locals did for us. One breed has a white full coat, the other a tan/ beige russet or black one. You see more flocks of sheep the nomad population due for money, and mutton is the chief animal food of them and for a lot of Afghanistan. We had locals that would slaughtered the sheep and goats, take their carcasses and them cut up, rubbed with salts, and dried in the sun. They would use this like a goat jerky for patrolling.
Our goats were kept in a pin. Locals would keep them within their living compounds. Kids would walk them during the daytime on the mountains or open areas. They had feed in the compound area during the winter time and water for them. You really don’t need much for them IMHO just some medium pickets, barbwire and something for shade.
Here is a good web site I found when we had some.
http://www.farminfo.org/livestock/goats.htm