These goats aren't just useful livestock, they also make highly entertaining — and sometimes mischievous — companions. For centuries, humans have raised goats for milk, meat and fiber; as work animals ...

The average weight of a buck can be 115 kg, while does are 75 kg. Their mothering instincts are very good; they don’t need any help during parturition which eases its keeping very much. It got its ...

The breed standards for the Boer goat, the White Savanah and the Kalahari Red are basically the same for body conformation and differ mainly regarding the colour of the coat and pigmentation. Goat ...

Goat farming business is not a new idea for farmers to generate income. It has been existent for quite a long time. Farmers have been rearing goats since the time when human beings discovered they ...

Nancy Barlass, one of a growing number of goat ranchers in Sonoma County, is the first to admit that her goat meat isn’t exactly an easy sell. ”I’ve donated it to barbecues,” she said. ”Everybody ...

Kutchi, an important dual-purpose (meat and milk) goat breed, is found in Banaskantha, Patan and Kutch districts of Gujarat, India. Genetic diversity within the breed was investigated using 25 ...

So determined is he to see better muscled and bigger goats being harvested from Australia’s rangelands that he is developing a breed which could be used over feral goats. Appropriately, it’s been ...

This breed takes the 7th place on our list of easiest goat breeds to raise, but this doesn’t mean that it lags behind. This is a real purpose-bred goat; developed in New Zeland as a pure meat breed.