They were dairy goats. The guy that bought them wanted new blood in his herd. But the male kids were sold off at times as pets, at times as food. Goat meat is tasty. We used to make home made ice cream from the goats milk, we even churned our own butter from the little cream that rises. Goats milk is rich but does not separate as much as cows milk will. Therefore it takes a lot of milk to get enough cream to churn butter.