learn more about the ever-popular Boer goat. We’ve seen increasing demand for meat goats in Virginia in recent years. This week we visit with the Carpenter family in Mount Crawford, Virginia to learn ...

Kandi Acres of Hawick is home to nearly 500 goats, most of them raised for meat production. Owned by Tiffany Farrier, it has been a labor of love. It is the only halal-certified goat farm in the state ...

On a Monday at the New Holland Sales Stables, buyers from all over the East Coast gather around the auction ring to wait for the next sale to start. But they didn’t travel all the way from New York ...

Ephraim Stoltzfus would like nothing more than to get the goat of struggling Plain Sect dairy farmers around Lancaster County. Raising meat goats to satisfy the preferred diets and religious ...

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 ...

DULUTH, Minn. -- Danyel Filipovich couldn't quite believe it when she heard that Big Red had made the news. That was him, all right -- all 250 pounds of Boer goat, hanging around the Superior ...

LeaAnn Wood has 10 kids. They’re hyper, loud and have soft, floppy ears and tiny hooves. The two-week-old Boer goats bound around the pasture of her 13-acre farm south of Salem. Wood, who is new to ...

Pigs, sheep, cows, and other large livestock aren’t suitable for the city and are typically outlawed by local laws. Goats are the largest animal we recommend if you don’t have at least an acre or two.