usDiggRedditYahooMyWebGoogle What's this? Goats clear fire hazard By Shelli DeRobertis, Staff Writer Article Launched:05/20/2007 11:42:15 PM PDT Goats graze on the vegetation along the hill side in Chino Hills as they clear the weeds on the hilly terrain where tractors can't go for weed abatement May 17, 2007. usDiggRedditYahooMyWebGoogle What's this? Goats clear fire hazard By Shelli DeRobertis, Staff Writer Article Launched:05/20/2007 11:42:15 PM PDT Goats graze on the vegetation along...

He gives his life to his sheep and for his sheep, and no one can take them out of his hand. Grass was scarce and the flock had to continually travel from one spot to another; there were no walls for protection and because of this the shepherd always had to be with the flock. This was the moment in which is revealed the difference between the true shepherd -- the one who shepherds the family's flock, who does this for his life's work -- and the hired hand, who works only for the pay he...

Beal has six alpacas at this farm and two others that she co-owns at another farm. As a child, he worked collecting wool in the sheep barns of New Zealand and learning to shear was the next logical step. As he runs his clippers over the animal, the owners carefully pick up the most precious fleece, the first fleece sheared. The muscular New Zealander has spent the past three months crossing the country shearing alpacas seven days a week, a job he has done for years. He laughs easily and...

Goat shortage Goat Breeders Association says import ban hurting industry. Vermont told the Sunday Observer yesterday that although he was in full support of the ban, it was causing several setbacks to the local goat-rearing industry. The Ministry of Agriculture's veterinary division implemented the ban last year after it was discovered that several farms in the United States and Canada, from which Jamaica imported goats, were not fully compliant with programmes to prevent the spread of...

Those 10 acres rarely get the attention they deserve, according to Rudy Kilgore, who has been farm manager for the last decade. Nevertheless, the award-winning agritainment facility will open its gates to the public on Saturday. Visitors in the courtyard will meet resident animals, including the inhabitants of Daffy's Duck Deck (complete with blue plastic wading pool), Chicken Run and the nearby walk-thru chicken coop, The Two Little Pigs' House and Bunnyville, complete with a shingled and...

And California-based genealogist Jeff Scism, who runs an international black sheep website, offers his own checklist for those qualifying as black sheep: "Generally, [those committing] all crimes where the person was imprisoned," he explained with great seriousness. Memorial Day weekend launches the season of reunions and celebrations, and the arrival of people we sometimes can't believe are related to us. Here's how to tame, or at least manage, your family's black sheep. And...