Tamil Nadu's Goat and Sheep Breeding Policy promotes nucleus herds and cooperatives to enhance livestock production and breed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Looking for some tips and sheep rearing information? Learn about a few dual purpose sheep breeds to develop your perfect flock. It was a happy accident, really, involving a road trip, a mistaken ...

NEW DELHI: Artificial insemination technology, currently used to improve breeds of cattle in the country, will now also be used for genetic improvement of sheep and goat, and state semen banks storing ...

Dingwall rare and native breeds sale sees goats peak at £320 and breeding sheep at £310, showing strong demand.

Two farmers from north Wales will become the first in the UK to breed a type of sheep - that looks like a goat. Damara sheep, native to African countries, have large fatty hindquarters and little wool ...

A shaggy-haired, long-horned native mammal, long considered “wild”, has been given an important new role in conservation. And a tough but skinny hill sheep of the west, promoted for its ancient genes, ...

The sheep and goat populations of Burkina Faso face many challenges – limited feed in the Sahelian north, infestations of deadly trypanosome carrying tsetse flies in the south, and a long dry season ...

-- What do you get when you cross a goat and a sheep? The answer is standing on all fours at an Arizona petting zoo. Butterfly, who is a cross between a pygmy goat and a sheep, otherwise known as a ...

Corrections & Clarifications: A prior version of this story misstated the breed of the goats. They're South African Boer goats. CHINO, Calif. – They're small, ill-tempered, incessantly hungry and, if ...