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 ...

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 ...

Melissa Breyer was Treehugger’s senior editorial director before moving to Martha Stewart. Her writing and photography have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, ...

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

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 ...

Meet Parkour the climbing-obsessed baby goat, who has taken to scaling sheep to get her adventure fix. The 2-month-old Nubian goat spends her afternoons climbing on the backs of her farm’s babydoll ...

Most sheep have thick wool coats and need to be sheared every year to prevent them from overheating during the summer months.

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