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 ...

Durham city leaders seem to have had their hands full with animal issues lately. Dixie, the pot-bellied pig. Wednesday, it was exotic South African goats. Both are winners. Ricky Pope of Durham ...

BRAINERD — One of the best parts about working with goats is that they have their own personalities, said Chris Bock, one of the 4-H members who participated in the goat judging on Wednesday. Bock, 15 ...

1. Acquire some goats. (Remember: The cuter the animal, the tastier the meat.) Meet Winston and Walter, our protagonists today. My husband Colin and I procured these lovely little fellows in May. We ...

BAGLEY, Minn. -- Close to 80 farmers interested in or already raising meat goats attended the first of four meat goat workshops in Bagley last month. The interest in the three remaining workshops ...

In the pasture at Cylon Rolling Acres in Deer Park Wisconsin; Leslie Svacina (middle left) teaches Jess Pryles, (middle right) how to move a portable fence line for goats and sheep during the filming ...

Paton Callahan, left, hands a goat to his brother Brice. The two are preparing twin Boer goats for the Okmulgee County 4-H and FFA Spring Livestock Show, which kicks off Friday at the Okmulgee County ...

Jill, Sara and Erin Larson raise Boer goats on the family's farmstead near New Richland, Minn. The goat barn is a former chicken coop. Erin is holding Shep, a kid that weighed six pounds when he was ...