Stepping onto sixth-generation farmer Dana Stewart's farm near Judsonia is like walking onto a wildlife preserve with cattle, goats, poultry, dogs and cats sunning themselves or meandering around the ...
Meet Parkour the climbing-obsessed baby goat, who has taken to scaling sheep to get her adventure fix. The 2-month-old Nubian goat spends her afternoons climbing on the backs of her farm’s babydoll ...
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 ...
Female dairy goats are reared for milk and male goats kept entirely for the purpose of meat and breeding. Goat fur is also used to make clothes making fabric. Sheep are kept mainly for their meat ...
Cora Reinbolt, who has been an Extension educator in Bartholomew County for six years and has over 20 years of experience raising sheep, began an additional part-time role this September as Purdue ...
COMFORT — Blame it on the canned mutton. During World War II, soldiers were given rations of gnarly old sheep meat that turned a whole generation and their offspring off to eating anything that once ...
When importing semen, the straws must be named accordingly with a number that shows the ram and date of collection. Dear Dr Othieno I read your article on Dorper sheep in Smart Harvest because I have ...
A new facility will help put Lincoln University at the cutting edge of sheep and goat meat processing. The 1890 land grant institution plans to build a commercial meat processing facility at Freeman ...
The sheep and goat populations of Burkina Faso face many challenges – limited feed in the Sahelian north, infestations of deadly trypanosome carrying tsetse flies in the south, and a long dry season ...
Corrections & Clarifications: A prior version of this story misstated the breed of the goats. They're South African Boer goats. CHINO, Calif. – They're small, ill-tempered, incessantly hungry and, if ...