Using goats to control invasive plant species is preferable to other biological control methods, such as insect releases, since the movement and spread of captive livestock can be more easily ...

Domestic goat breeds come in an array of sizes and colors. Apart from their physical traits, they also exhibit different behaviors (like fainting).

The French – Alpine goat, the number 4 on our list of easiest goat breeds to raise come from the Alps, Europe. It is also referred to as Alpine Dairy Goat, as it gives 1000-1100 kg of milk ...

21 years ago this month, a wild goat species went extinct — and kicked off a bizarre but ultimately hopeful scientific adventure. The Pyrenean ibex became extinct in January of 2000, ...

GoatWork’s rent-a-goat program kicks off the summer with 14 Alpine goats who make a picnic of invasive plant species. The ...

Brian Knox's goats are a bit of a novelty in Maryland, munching invasive species that have proven too tough for mowers, weed whackers and herbicides.

HaakHagen started in 2016 with 12 goats and now rents out over 100 of the four-legged mowers to park departments and private landowners in southern Wisconsin, making invasive species management a ...

The results of Rathfon’s five-year experiment were recently published in the journal Restoration Ecology (Volume 29, Issue 4, May 2021) in an article titled “Effects of prescribed grazing by goats on ...

Goats are a nontoxic, easily transportable tool for removing invasive species like glossy buckthorn. × Goats may very well be the greatest of all time—GOATs, literally and figuratively!—when it comes ...

Mountain goat species are a heartier species than bighorn sheep, able to survive on a wider range of plants in Summit County while Rocky Mountain sheep are more susceptible to disease, George said.

Goats which live in a wild herd in Northumberland and are a crucial link to ancient domesticated goats have been added to a watch list of rare breeds. The Cheviot goat, whose population centres on ...