Melissa Breyer was Treehugger’s senior editorial director before moving to Martha Stewart. Her writing and photography have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, ...

It’s that time of the year again to learn about the forces keeping Alabamians “day to day” from ending. Each fall, the ...

While sheep and goats share a common ancestry and are both farmed for meat, milk, and fiber, they exhibit distinct ...

So perhaps you noticed a post I wrote last weekend about how you know if your goat is happy. Yes, scientists do study that. The story had a cute picture of a goat at the top, taken by a photographer ...

Laura Childs’ “The Joy of Keeping Farm Animals” is a practical, thorough guide for anyone interested in having a backyard barnyard. The following is an excerpt fromThe Joy of Keeping Farm Animalsby ...

In November 2013, farmer Paddy Murphy witnessed one of his sheep mating with a goat. Five months later, the sheep gave birth to a sheep-goat hybrid, which Murphy refers to as his first "geep". "This ...

That's pretty much the four-word summation of a new study looking at what happens when goats and sheep compete for salt licks – naturally occurring deposits of salt – above the tree line in Montana.

Meet Parkour the climbing-obsessed baby goat, who has taken to scaling sheep to get her adventure fix. The 2-month-old Nubian goat spends her afternoons climbing on the backs of her farm’s babydoll ...