When most people think of goats, they think of dairy goats supplying fresh milk, cheese, and soap. But a growing number of homesteaders are raising goats for a different reason: meat. Goat meat ...

COLCHESTER, Vt. — A bunch of kids in a minivan are solving twin challenges in northern Vermont: refugees struggling to find the food of their homelands and farmers looking to offload unwanted ...

A baby boom is underway at Salt Lake City’s East African Refugee Goat Project. About 100 kids have been born since mid-March on the scenic ranch 8 miles west of Salt Lake City International Airport.

When Nate Baribault was 8 years old, he decided he wanted to raise goats because they were friendlier than cows. Baribault, now 17, of Hebron, has his own business — he raises boer goats that he sells ...

Durham city leaders seem to have had their hands full with animal issues lately. First, it was Dixie, the pot-bellied pig. Wednesday, it was exotic South African goats. Both are winners. Ricky Pope of ...

LAKELAND | Goat ranching offers an opportunity for a small farmer to make some doe, but don't expect to rake in the bucks. No kidding! Now that we've dispensed with the mandatory goat puns, the fact ...

Bonnie, a 3-year-old goat who lives with Olivia Gadwah and Ryan Snow in Millbury, will nibble on just about anything: a key fob, a visitor's glove and, more nutritiously, brush that formerly filled ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Participants of the 2006 Midwest Meat Goat Workshop will have the opportunity to learn about issues and practices relevant to today’s producers. The workshop will be held at the ...

A white and a dappled Boer goat stand in their pen at the D and J Goat Farms auction at the Johnston County Livestock Arena. The auction drew goats from across North Carolina and buyers from across ...