Year of the Goat or Sheep

Twitter user @someofmybest alerts us to the existence of this creature, which ranchers insist is a breed of sheep and not a poorly disguised predator from a Looney Toons short: you look like someone spray-painted their pigs to look like sheep pic.twitter.com/6IftBUiObS – cor blimey (@someofmybest) February 15, 2016 This sheep, assuming we believe those ranchers that it even is a sheep, is a Beltex, a peculiar, heavily-muscled breed originating in Belgium. Its name

We love raising kids in the pasture, and lambs.  The kids we raise don’t originate from goats.  They come from town.  To see the lambs. Children average about six and a half hours a day in school.  According to a 2015 Common Sense Media report they spend another 4-6 hours a day in front of screens.  This number continues to rise.  These are all hours spent indoors.  According to the National Institutes of Health, more than four hours per day of screen

Why keep goats? What is so great about them? For small farmers, hobby farmers, and homesteaders alike, goats can be a great choice of species. Theyre good for milk, meat, fiber, and more. Common Benefits So what are some of the benefits of raising goats? Raise your own meat. Raising goats for meat can be a great thing to do for your own family, to provide for your food needs, but it can also be a profitable small farm business—if thought through carefully and with an eye to where y

The Bucks Goat Centre in Buckinghamshire, England, is a small farm, open to the public, with a focus on education and conservation. It’s run by Ruth Gaisford and Anthony Hearn, who have a real passion for the animals in their care.   This is no ordinary farm. The animals are not bred for milk or meat. They live a life of fuss and adoration, admired by the visiting public, appearing on television, and arriving at events to bring a quirky element to even the most formal o