When most people think of goats, they think of dairy goats supplying fresh milk, cheese, and soap. But a growing number of homesteaders are raising goats for a different reason: meat. Goat meat ...

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 ...

There is a quiet revolution on the far south coast of NSW as rural landholders buy goats rather than reach for an environmentally expensive chemical solution for weeds. Non-farmers are buying all ...

ELDERSBURG, Md. (AP) -- When she began to raise goats to sell 15 years ago, Pam Adams used to get one or two calls a month. Today, she gets at least three calls a week. The demand for goat meat is ...

Before buying goats, decide whether you want to raise them for yourself or in order to sell meat or milk. Keep in mind that a single doe will produce 90 quarts of fresh milk every month for 10 months ...

Nancy Barlass, one of a growing number of goat ranchers in Sonoma County, is the first to admit that her goat meat isn?t exactly an easy sell. ?I?ve donated it to barbecues,? she said. ?Everybody ...

A white and a dappled Boer goat stand in their pen at the D and J Goat Farms auction at the Johnston County Livestock Arena. The auction drew goats from across North Carolina and buyers from across ...

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 ...

Paton Callahan, left, hands a goat to his brother Brice. The two are preparing twin Boer goats for the Okmulgee County 4-H and FFA Spring Livestock Show, which kicks off Friday at the Okmulgee County ...