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 ...

Goat meat has never gone out of style, and demand for it only continues to increase, Oregon Meat Goat Producers President Stacey Rumgay says. Rumgay’s meat goat operation began as an effort to provide ...

When an abandoned billy goat showed up on BLM land in New Castle, Colorado, Sylvia Ringer, a wildlife biologist for the federal agency, figured he could stay with her while they looked for his owner.

Meat goats are not the same swaybacked critters you may have seen on Saturday morning cartoons or, if you’re like me, on the roof of your aunt’s Toyota Camry. They are square-topped protein producers ...

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 ...

DULUTH, Minn. -- Danyel Filipovich couldn't quite believe it when she heard that Big Red had made the news. That was him, all right -- all 250 pounds of Boer goat, hanging around the Superior ...

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 ...

This is your online resource for the 4-H Boer Goat project. The record sheet is attached below. If you have any questions, please refer to the 24-H Handbook or contact the Extension Office. *If you ...