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 ...

One of the biggest leaps in reproduction efficiency comes with ridding yourself of doing things the way they have always been done. As most goat breeds are not limited to a breeding season, adopting ...

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 ...

Someone recently asked me how they could improve the teats on their does. I told them to find a buck whose dam had the teats they wanted. Whether you’re aiming to improve teat placement, milk ...

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 ...

Dear daktari, I wish to venture into goat farming. I am not sure whether to produce for meat or milk but I know I want to start farming goats on a large but organised scale. Kindly, I need the key ...