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 ...

Dear Dr. Vittoria: I am a retired farmer and I want to get into making goat cheese. I started to buy female goats and was looking for a buck to add into my breeding program. What should I be looking ...

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 ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. The Toggenburg breed of dairy goat. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard] Dear daktari, I wish to venture into goat farming. I ...

A mature Toggenburg goat buck fetches Sh70,000 in the local market. A purebred buck has a sleek brown coat and long drooping ears, but it is not the look that makes it a premium goat; it is its high ...

PIPESTONE, Minn. — Sandi Steinhoff-Muller was extra busy Oct. 6. She and her husband, Tom, were part of the team making sure everything went well at the Northern Lights Boer Breeding Goat Sale. It was ...

Julie Russell was always a country girl at heart, so when she moved to Dayton more than three years ago from Fresno, Calif., she wanted to raise some kind of country pet. Goats came to mind. First it ...