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 ...

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 ...

These goats aren't just useful livestock, they also make highly entertaining — and sometimes mischievous — companions. For centuries, humans have raised goats for milk, meat and fiber; as work animals ...

Nubians got the number one place because without a shadow of a doubt it is one of the most popular, well-known and all-purpose goats: useful for milk, meat and hide production. We can say this is the ...

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 ...