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 ...

Tamil Nadu's Goat and Sheep Breeding Policy promotes nucleus herds and cooperatives to enhance livestock production and breed ...

LEWISTON, Minn. (WCCO) --There's a breed of goats that give true meaning to the phrase "paralyzed in fear." They're called fainting goats and the breed is growing in popularity. On the farms of rural ...

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 ...

Looking for some tips and sheep rearing information? Learn about a few dual purpose sheep breeds to develop your perfect flock. It was a happy accident, really, involving a road trip, a mistaken ...

NEW DELHI: Artificial insemination technology, currently used to improve breeds of cattle in the country, will now also be used for genetic improvement of sheep and goat, and state semen banks storing ...

Dingwall rare and native breeds sale sees goats peak at £320 and breeding sheep at £310, showing strong demand.

Two farmers from north Wales will become the first in the UK to breed a type of sheep - that looks like a goat. Damara sheep, native to African countries, have large fatty hindquarters and little wool ...

A shaggy-haired, long-horned native mammal, long considered “wild”, has been given an important new role in conservation. And a tough but skinny hill sheep of the west, promoted for its ancient genes, ...