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 ...

This is one of four Boer doe goats being used to eat weeds at Avon Golf Course in eastern Fayette County. The goats belong to Scott County goat producer Gary Riddle. Goats are being used across the ...

The demand for chevon is outstripping supply in the United States, so a Laurel woman wants to be part of a new market for meat. Stacy Anderson has started a farm flock of Boer goats that she intends ...

You may not be aware of it, but the demand for goat meat in this country far exceeds the supply. As ethnic populations in the United States grow—and as the traditionally bland American palate grows ...

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.

ABILENE — Although goat meat isn't always available at meat counters in Kansas groceries, the market for the meat is rapidly growing in the Midwest. Jamie Garten, of Garten Boer Goats in Abilene, said ...

Goat fattening is nothing but ‘intensive feeding of goats in feedlots to slaughter weight with an adequate finish or fat deposit’. Advantages of goat fattening Technically, it is quite simple and ...

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 ...