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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Goats (and sheep) have been recruited in the effort to fight wildfires. Northern Spain has a "Fire Flocks" project, in which dozens and dozens of the ruminants chip in by doing what they do so well: ...

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 ...