Using a herd of specialists and generalists, one local couple has turned an old joke into a serious business. The concept, ...

Beyond their charm, the animals are helping the city rethink how it maintains green spaces. Officials enlist unlikely helpers to tackle daunting project on public land: 'They're fun to watch' first ...

Lauren Arcuri is a writer and an experienced small farmer based in rural Vermont. When selecting the right sheep breed, the first thing to consider is the purpose of the sheep. Are you raising them ...

Electric fences are essential in keeping goats safe and protected from predators. They also ensure goats don’t wander off and get lost. Certain factors must be considered when choosing the ideal ...

On a stretch of Sanford Lake’s exposed bottomlands, a herd of goats has become an unlikely but welcome cleanup crew. Six neighboring property owners, facing the challenge of keeping fast-growing ...

WILBRAHAM — The Guys, Gals, and Goats 4-H Club of Wilbraham and the Hampden County Homesteaders 4-H Club of East Longmeadow were recently awarded BOOST grants from the Massachusetts 4-H Foundation.

Sheep are known for many things, but if you thought farting wasn’t one of them, think again. Sheep are responsible for releasing significant amounts of carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere.

Amid a symphony of tinkling bells, some 300 black, brown and dappled goats trot along a paved road in Spain’s northern Catalonia region, stopping every now and then to nibble with gusto on the dry ...

While other Ontario cities are just now chewing on the idea, Mississauga led the herd in May 2024 as the province’s first municipality to use goats as natural lawnmowers to control invasive plant ...

Three trailer-loads of adorable sheep and goats arrived Tuesday at Neenah's Carpenter Preserve. The first dozen sheep trotted down a short, fence-lined sidewalk to the nature preserve, eager to graze ...

After donning white Tyvek suits and slipping plastic booties over our shoes, Jeffrey Turner and I enter a cavernous metal building on a farm outside Montreal. Having never seen a genetically modified ...

April 10 (UPI) --The San Diego Humane Society said it took a total 12 officers to wrangle a goat found wandering loose in the city. The SDHS said the male Anglo-Nubian goat was reported Wednesday ...