Two rare goats are missing from a New Jersey farm and worker Jeff Shaw fears the worst. "It is the holiday season and people eat these. I think somebody just couldn't get one or couldn't afford it and ...

Most red meat producers are familiar with using scrotal circumferences of bulls as a breeding value, and with palpating rams' testicles to check for diseases, but the importance of checking teats on ...

ANDERSON, Calif. — Goat breeder Marjorie Ostman and her friends wanted a way to show some of their best stock. So they approached the board of the Shasta District Fair here with the idea of starting ...

GOAT breeds such as the Boer goat, Savanna and Kalahari red are not only good meat-producing animals; they are hardy, and their feeding habits make them versatile and resilient. Also, they have a ...

ALBERT LEA, Minn. — Webster's Dictionary defines boring as "dull or uninteresting." A group of livestock breeders in the Midwest might define that word a little differently. The Never Boering Goat ...

GRAVETTE — The Corey Taylor family of Gravette recently brought home five national titles with their prize-winning goats. The Taylor family raises full-blood African Boer goats. Corey, his wife Donna ...

Stephanie Jung used to schedule kidding for after the New Year. Then, the purebred Boer goat breeder realized if she moved the date back a few weeks, she and her husband, John, would have some help.