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You can raise breeding stock while raising crossbreed goats for meat, but make sure that you have the resources—housing, fencing, space, time, and energy—to do both before you commit.
A group of 3- and 4-year-old Boer meat goats on the Narvon farm of Robert Herr, who thinks raising meat goats can help struggling Amish dairy farms in Lancaster County.
How to Make Money Raising Pygmy Goats. Raising pygmy goats for profit gives you a chance to work with domesticated animals while developing a business that helps pay for their upkeep. Pygmy goats ...
CHARLESTON — The U.S. is a beef-eating country, however, several local farmers are looking to a new market which expands how Americans look at meat. The demand for meat goats has grown as the ...
COLUMBIA — Glenda DeShon and her husband started raising meat goats two years ago after looking into options for unused land on her family's farm 14 miles east of Columbia.
Basics of raising meat goats will be highlighted at Purdue workshop WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The Northeast Indiana Meat Goat Workshop on April 14 will provide current and future meat goat producers the ...
Linda Guest, who has raised dairy goats for years, said her grandchildren have been raising meat goats for this year’s fair and would benefit from inclusion in the auction.
Steve Nordan has been raising Boer goats in Johnston County for better than a decade. His children showed the animals in 4-H competitions, and now his six grandchildren will continue the tradition.