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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Each year, sheep and goat farmers around the world lose an estimated US $10 billion due to gastrointestinal parasites that infect their animals, leading to loss of weight and wools and even death – a ...

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 ...

A workshop aimed at teaching people about sheep and goat production is headed to Penn State Extension in Westmoreland County on March 22. Attendees will learn how select animals based on performance ...

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 ...

This story appears in the November 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. County fairs are a little like beauty pageants for animals. The way we selectively breed goats and sheep has shaped the ...