If goats are in short supply in your area, you might consider raising breeding stock to sell to other goat farmers. Before deciding to breed goats for sale, consider all the possible goals for your ...

Raising pygmy goats for profit gives you a chance to work with domesticated animals while developing a business that helps pay for their upkeep. Pygmy goats provide multiple opportunities for making ...

Kandi Acres of Hawick is home to nearly 500 goats, most of them raised for meat production. Owned by Tiffany Farrier, it has been a labor of love. It is the only halal-certified goat farm in the state ...

CHARLESTON — The U.S. is a beef-eating country, however, several local farmers are looking to a new market which expands how Americans look at meat. The demand for meat goats has grown as the nation’s ...

NEW HOLLAND, Pa. - A growing demand for goat meat among New York City Muslims has been a boon to a livestock auction tucked away in the middle of Amish country. Here, where a covered shelter in a ...

Ephraim Stoltzfus would like nothing more than to get the goat of struggling Plain Sect dairy farmers around Lancaster County. Raising meat goats to satisfy the preferred diets and religious ...

COLUMBIA — Glenda DeShon and her husband started raising meat goats two years ago after looking into options for unused land on her family's farm 14 miles east of Columbia. “We looked at university ...

I have a friend who calls on me when she and her husband leave town. They have a large menagerie of critters that need daily feeding and watering. I enjoy the quiet splendor of their property situated ...

Press release from Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture: Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture is pleased to announce a workshop on Raising Meat Goats, hosted by farmers Nona and Jeff Cullen. This FREE workshop ...

And goat used to be a staple in their diets. As a result, demand for goat meat has skyrocketed. Local producers say they can't supply enough, which provides a unique opportunity for farmers or acreage ...

The goat's tail wagged vigorously, shaking a white pompom of fur at its tip, while the 80-pound Boer circled the judging ring. It wagged as the goat followed its forlorn-looking 12-year-old owner, ...