Female dairy goats are reared for milk and male goats kept entirely for the purpose of meat and breeding. Goat fur is also used to make clothes making fabric. Sheep are kept mainly for their meat ...

The Tamil Nadu Goat & Sheep Breeding Policy, recently unveiled by the State Government, has advocated for an open nucleus breeding system for goats and for selective breeding within the breed with ...

TULSA, Okla. — Tulsa Zoo announced the addition of four goat kids from a critically endangered breed. The zoo welcomed ...

Sheep (Ovis aries) have woolly coats and strong flocking instincts. Goats (Capra aegagrus hircus) are independent browsers with hair coats. Sheep graze on grass; goats browse on leaves and shrubs.

FISHERS, Ind., April 20, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Three of the rarest breed of goats in the world have been born at Conner Prairie. The Arapawa kids were born the week of March 19-23 to two Arapawa does ...

Sheep and goats are closely related, both having been domesticated and used by humans for fiber, meat and milk for millennia. But they aren’t similar in all ways. One possible difference, newly ...

North Dakota State University researchers are working to identify a tool that producers can use to identify sheep or goats ...

When importing semen, the straws must be named accordingly with a number that shows the ram and date of collection. Dear Dr Othieno I read your article on Dorper sheep in Smart Harvest because I have ...

Shivani Azad is a TOI journalist who covers Environment, Wildlife, Medical and Social subjects.