Since that experiment, researchers have found out a lot more about these ruminants. Goats were domesticated about 10.000 years ago, the first species we domesticated after the dog.

Manitoba The goats of Christmas past: Ravenous ruminants make short work of old trees Manitoba's Aurora Farm says trees make a great snack for goats, and act as a natural de-wormer ...

A goat was found to be infected with the H5N1 subtype of bird flu at a farm in Minnesota, marking the first such case of bird flu in a domestic ruminant (cattle, sheep, goats, and their relatives ...

Goats, like cows, are ruminants: animals that swallow their food, let it ferment in a stomach, and then puke it up to chew it again.

Newport Mills — makers of the popular animal feed brand Nutramix — have made semen and embryo transfer for small ruminants (goat and sheep) available locally. In a release issued on Tuesday ...

Similar measures are already in effect in parts of central Greece where the ‘plague’ was first reported. PPR does not affect ...

If anyone can get your goat, she’s Monica Shields. She can get you a goat — or for better effect, at least half a dozen — from her Beaver County farm to take care of unwanted vegetation. And ...

Small ruminant markets were reopened on June 14, though the import of small ruminants into Burundi remains prohibited. “Initial results from the sero -monitoring campaign carried out since August 13 ...

Green highlighted that in a bid to bolster the goat stock, the Government has imported 1,000 of the animals since April of last year under the National Small Ruminant Development Programme.