Lauren Arcuri is a writer and an experienced small farmer based in rural Vermont. If you're starting a goat herd, you must know some basics about the animals you're tending, including how to feed them ...

If you're starting a goat herd, you must know some basics about the animals you're tending, including how to feed them properly. Whether raising goats for meat, establishing a dairy herd, or ...

As luck would have it, most of my does are ready to kid this record-cold January — thus all the straw bedding in the picture! One momma has even wallowed out a huge nest in the straw. In addition to ...

Life on a homestead always circles back to feeding time and having a homestead animal feeding plan is essential. From people to animals, everyone always seems to be hungry! Chickens scratch for grain, ...

When Dawn Langille purchased two goats in September, she never imagined having to leave New Brunswick to find feed for them. After she got them home, she learned there was a hay shortage. "I wouldn't ...

The Northern Farm Training Institute in Hay River, N.W.T., has a lot more cashmere goats than it bargained for. The institute purchased 19 goats last summer from a farmer advertising them on Kijiji.

A Cornish dairy farm has asked people to donate their real Christmas trees so its goats can eat them. Polmarkyn Dairy owner Glyn Thomas said the trees were in addition to the their usual winter diet ...