In November 2013, farmer Paddy Murphy witnessed one of his sheep mating with a goat. Five months later, the sheep gave birth to a sheep-goat hybrid, which Murphy refers to as his first "geep". "This ...

Livestock farming is a key economic activity in many parts of the country with the industry contributing significantly to agricultural gross domestic product (GDP), the second largest contributor to ...

Stepping onto sixth-generation farmer Dana Stewart's farm near Judsonia is like walking onto a wildlife preserve with cattle, goats, poultry, dogs and cats sunning themselves or meandering around the ...

The breed standards for the Boer goat, the White Savanah and the Kalahari Red are basically the same for body conformation and differ mainly regarding the colour of the coat and pigmentation. Goat ...

Nestled in the heart of the Vredefort Dome, surrounded by the Dome Bergland mountain range, you will find Marius Smit and ...

COMFORT — Blame it on the canned mutton. During World War II, soldiers were given rations of gnarly old sheep meat that turned a whole generation and their offspring off to eating anything that once ...

IT didn’t take long for Chip, a Tennessee fainting goat sporting a luxuriant Vandyke beard and an impressive pair of curlicue horns, to live up to his breed’s name. When Peter Borden, accompanied by a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Abstract: Goat husbandry is the main rural livelihood in the northern Patagonian steppe of Argentina, and herders kill any carnivore that they believe threatens their herds, including the endangered ...