There’s an idea about goats that is firmly entrenched in the popular imagination: Goats will eat anything that isn’t bolted down. They’ll eat shoes, books, McRibs, even tin cans. Except, that’s not really true at all.
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Sometimes it’s not easy being a goat. Like when you get accused of being a black magician, stealing a car, and being thrown in the slammer.
The Illustrated Journals of a Dairy Farmer in 1941
The continuing journals of dairy farmer W.G. Pope from 1941, as illustrated by his great-grandson. This week: a Goat Week cameo.
This is the state fair diary of Deer Girl, a Boer goat, as told to journalist Andrew Jenner.
How to Get a Goat to Weed Your Garden
There have been a lot of headlines about using goats as living lawnmowers. Google famously used goats on an undeveloped section of its campus, and more recently the Congressional C...
We may have an official live goat cam going for Goat Week, but that's not the end of our goat video coverage. For Goat Week, Modern Farmer is teaming up with Directr, a super easy ...
William (Billy to his friends), was quickly rising up the ranks of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Welsh, an infantry battalion of the British Army. (Goats, you see, have a long his...
The Silky, Milky, Totally Strange Saga of the Spider Goat
But let's get this out of the way: These goats can't set webs to catch their prey, they don't possess super-strength, and they aren't tottering around the barn on eight bony legs (...
Dear Modern Farmer: How Do I Legally Raise Goats in the City?
Don’t break the law just for your goats.
