If you don’t mind a bleat and can take the heat, goat farming could be your meal ticket.

Mary Rigdon never sleeps late — not even on weekends. She doesn’t go carousing past 7 p.m. either. Some folks might not take to rising at 4 a.m. on a Saturday or being stuck at home in the evenings, ...

Mother's Day this year was a bit atypical. My interest in urban farming had peaked with the possibility of raising goats in my Oakland backyard and I needed a dose of reality. So, instead of brunching ...

Nigerian dwarf goats grow to only 21 in. tall, about equal to a medium-size dog. “But they have giant udders,” says Novella Carpenter. She should know: she has six goats that together provide a quart ...

Starting with only 20 breeding females and one male in April 2024, Leon Lourens and his partners have grown their indigenous ...

Limited space allowance at the feeding place often leads to increased agonistic behaviour among goats. But social tension can be reduced by properly designing the feeding areas. Researchers from the ...

Minister for Animal Husbandry Vakiti Srihari said the State government was committed to the welfare of the shepherd community and urged sheep rearers to improve the productivity of sheep and goats to ...

On a Monday at the New Holland Sales Stables, buyers from all over the East Coast gather around the auction ring to wait for the next sale to start. But they didn’t travel all the way from New York ...

An enterprising Aran islander is combining ancient farming techniques with cutting-edge technology to make an income from ...

Small-scale dairy goat farming is transforming lives in Mukurwe-ini, Nyeri County by giving farmers financial independence. For Mary Wachuka Gachunia, her journey into dairy goat farming began in 2000 ...

Lice on goats is a common issue for farmers. It only becomes a problem if the animals are infested with lice. Credit: Aislinn Sarnacki / BDN There is no reason to panic if you discover lice on your ...