In 2005, Julie and Tony Rossotti of Petaluma, Calif., were looking for something different in livestock production and found what they wanted — something “new” with an old history. “We found the ...

Alvin Steenkamp, Lukas Burger and Salmon van Huyssteen with the Boer goat rams. Photo: Supplied by Lukas Burger Boer Goat Stud. A Boer goat stud near Griekwastad in the Northern Cape recently made the ...

McMINNVILLE, Ore. — The fact that many were expecting twins didn’t keep nearly 100 top meat goats from congregating at the American Boer Goat Association’s Fall Show and Sale Oct. 1-2 at the Yamhill ...

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 ...

My colleague Allison Aubrey's story last week about giving an African a goat as an act of charity got me wondering: Why don't we see more goats here in the United States? After all, there's a lot to ...

The indigenous Kalahari Red goats arrived in South Africa and Namibia with migrating tribes from the north of Africa. Early records describe lob-eared goats in the Western Cape, Eastern Cape and ...