Category: Goats and Sheep

When my mother was a child, she ambled outside to play. Unexpectedly, the family's polled billy goat rammed her and sent her somersaulting through the air. As a goat keeper, you don't want this...

Last summer, one of my goats acted oddly and had unidentifiable bite marks on her back, making me fear rabies. Additionally, we'd recently run into several live bats and a dead one nearby. I was...

Laminitis is a condition of the goat’s hoof when the tissue inside the hoof swells, leading to inflammation. As it walks around, the swelled part is pushed against the inner hoof wall causing pain...

Goat diarrhea, or runny poop is referred to as scours. Too much milk or too much grain feeding can result in sour milk. Scours is more likely to affect goat kids than fully-grown goats, though adults...

When well taken care of, goats can live for 12-14 years on average, while some can live much longer. Here is some basic information about them, in case you consider keeping goats. Goats are very...

Raising sheep is fun, and it's easy to do with just a little bit of land. You can raise sheep on as little as a half-acre of pasture or less if you buy feed. If you are considering raising sheep, the...