Scientists in the country have started developing the fastest-growing meat-goat breed to improve the productivity of indigenous breeds, whose body weights are often small and grow slowly. Under the ...

There are over 650 registered members with the South African Boer Goat Breeders’ Association focusing on three distinct ...

Kutchi, an important dual-purpose (meat and milk) goat breed, is found in Banaskantha, Patan and Kutch districts of Gujarat, India. Genetic diversity within the breed was investigated using 25 ...

The breed standards for the Boer goat, the White Savanah and the Kalahari Red are basically the same for body conformation and differ mainly regarding the colour of the coat and pigmentation. Goat ...

A meat goat is a breed that is specially bred and raised for meat. There are four main breeds raised for meat: Boer, Spanish meat goat, Kiko and Tennessee. The Churchill County Livestock Show and Sale ...

The average weight of a buck can be 115 kg, while does are 75 kg. Their mothering instincts are very good; they don’t need any help during parturition which eases its keeping very much. It got its ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Many will agree there can be no greater joy than raising and nurturing animals. Whether they live inside ...

This breed takes the 7th place on our list of easiest goat breeds to raise, but this doesn’t mean that it lags behind. This is a real purpose-bred goat; developed in New Zeland as a pure meat breed.

As the evening sun dipped behind the gentle hills of Entebbe in Uganda, a small herd of Jianzhou big-eared goats recently imported from China grazed quietly on fresh pasture, their distinctive floppy ...

So determined is he to see better muscled and bigger goats being harvested from Australia’s rangelands that he is developing a breed which could be used over feral goats. Appropriately, it’s been ...