If goats are in short supply in your area, you might consider raising breeding stock to sell to other goat farmers. Before deciding to breed goats for sale, consider all the possible goals for your ...

One of the biggest leaps in reproduction efficiency comes with ridding yourself of doing things the way they have always been done. As most goat breeds are not limited to a breeding season, adopting ...

The process of domestication has largely eliminated the seasonal breeding cycle in many types of livestock, but most goats and sheep are still attuned to this ancient rhythm. The shorter days at the ...

Carole Rhoten turns heads as she walks through the barns on her farm near Hampstead. The goats clamor for her attention — for a pat on the head or scratch on the chin — and she readily complies. The ...

In short: An Angora goat farmer is hopeful a genetic breeding program will make the breed more sustainable and productive. Angora goats produce a fleece used in the production of mohair, a fabric ...

We first gave you a glimpse of some exceptional kids last year during Harvest of Thanks. These aren’t just any goat; these are Arapawa goats, one of the rarest breeds of goats in the world. “It’s a ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. The Toggenburg breed of dairy goat. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard] Dear daktari, I wish to venture into goat farming. I ...

A mature Toggenburg goat buck fetches Sh70,000 in the local market. A purebred buck has a sleek brown coat and long drooping ears, but it is not the look that makes it a premium goat; it is its high ...

Julie Russell was always a country girl at heart, so when she moved to Dayton more than three years ago from Fresno, Calif., she wanted to raise some kind of country pet. Goats came to mind. First it ...

CHIVWETU VILLAGE, Zimbabwe, May 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - With worsening droughts in western Zimbabwe making it difficult to grow enough food, the farmers of the Tonga community have been ...