There are good goats and bad goats. Goats that will run and goats that will kick. Competitors on horseback break through the gate at a run and dismount on the fly when they reach the goat tethered at the center of the arena. Sharon won a national championship in the event last year, and although she placed second on Friday, she still has a chance to qualify for a return trip this year. If the girls stick the dismount, it's a matter of shooting a double-hoof takedown, pinning the skittish,...

Designed for anyone who wants to learn more about raising goats for meat, milk or fiber, these tours aim to teach sound goat husbandry and help support the growing Maine market for local cheese and meat. Waters raises full-blood and percentage Boer goats, and the topic of this tour will be goat facilities and crossbreeding for meat production. UMaine Extension s series of goat enterprise tours are taking place through September at farms around the state. Considered browsers rather than...

The key to a successful hill sheep industry will be to have a production system that is sustainable both in terms of its impact on the environment as well as financially. If we look at the euro Profit Monitor (ePM) results for 2005 we can quickly see that the average sheep farmer retained nearly all of the direct payments (loosing on average two euro per ewe before premia are taken into account. Hill sheep in Ireland are generally farmed in a traditional manner where they have, in the...

Since operations began early this year with 2,000 Jamnapari goats in a 100-hectare area in Rong Chenok near here, the company has been getting many enquiries from companies as far as in Saudi Arabia, Brunei, Taiwan and China, said its general manager Azhar Jaafar. Since operations began early this year with 2,000 Jamnapari goats in a 100-hectare area in Rong Chenok near here, the company has been getting many enquiries from companies as far as in Saudi Arabia, Brunei, Taiwan and China,...

There were even instructions on how to cook it, making roast lamb a rare biblical recipe: "Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts" (Exodus 12:9) Lamb remains the most prized meat of the Mideast to this day. Throughout Turkey, the city is renowned for its superb lamb and its excellent kebabs and other lamb dishes. Lamb, which was much more common in her area, was the meat served on her family's table. At Cagdas there was lamb...

You are in: Home>News Sheep double tagging fears eased by DEFRA 25/06/2007 15:30:00 FWi DEFRA has reassured the industry that it will only seek to implement the basic requirements of the EU sheep double tagging directive after efforts to extend the current derogation failed. You are in: Home>News Sheep double tagging fears eased by DEFRA 25/06/2007 15:30:00 FWi DEFRA has reassured the industry that it will only seek to implement the basic requirements of the EU sheep double tagging...