Nutritional facts about goat meat you should know

 

By Times of India

An increasing number of experts, however, are saying that goat meat has a number of nutritional benefits. Low in calories, total fat, saturated fat and cholesterol than traditional meats, goat meat has higher levels of iron when compared to a similar serving size of beef, pork, lamb and chicken. Comparatively, goat meat also contains higher potassium content with lower sodium levels. Offering more nutritional value and greater health benefits, goat meat has a number of health benefits, which include…

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Peste des Petits Ruminants now present in 76 countries, Eradication campaign being formulated

 

By Outbreak News Today

Georgia recently reported its first-ever case of Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR), a viral disease which is capable of severely impacting goat and sheep populations, while a new outbreak has occurred in the Maldives, showing that even island states are vulnerable to the plague.

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Legging the lamb the right way with Raf and Dave + VIDEO

By Sheep Central

LAMB lovers will enjoy this video by the Sheep CRC as the role of chumps, shanks, rumps, legs and topsides in the Meat Standards Australia system is explained.

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Baby Lamb Gets Fake Coat After Being Born Without Fleece

By Jacintha Webster

A baby sheep that was born without fleece has been made a customized fake coat using a fleece jumper made from the wool of other lambs on the farm to keep him warm. The little bald lamb was born on the English farm Chilton Foliat in Wiltshire. The young lamb sadly was quickly abandoned by his mother after being born, possibly because of his lack of fleece.

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Ram sale a hit with sheep producers

By Cecilia Parsons

Range ready rams that will go on to sire a good portion of California’s commercial lamb crop were offered for sale at the 96th annual California Ram Sale held in Porterville.

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Shepherd’s Gift funding sheep research for Huntington’s disease

By Kari O’Neill

In a growing movement in western South Dakota, sheep producers, veterinarians, families and friends of victims of Huntington’s disease are working together to spur new research to battle this degenerative fatal illness.

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Instant Expert: If you love caffeine, hug a goat

 By Wanita Bates

Some might say that coffee is the only good thing about mornings. Coffee by any other name — like battery acid, brain juice, Brewtus, cup of Joe, day-starter, go juice, java, jitter juice, liquid lightning, morning thunder, mother’s little helper, rocket fuel, or wakey juice — is still a caffeine-carrying beverage.

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Goat Herd Helps Trump Lower Tax Bite

By Richard Rubin

Donald Trump has found a solution that cuts both his grass and his tax bill: Goats. The Republican presidential front-runner’s small goat herd, combined with hay farming and wood cutting, let him qualify for a New Jersey farmland tax break that saves him tens of thousands of dollars a year in property taxes on two golf courses, according to public records.

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Lucerne silage becomes crucial for breeding sheep during prolonged dry spell

By John Thistleton

Finely chopped and buried for years as silage, lucerne ferments and smells sickly sweet when damp, and is being dumped to feed thousands of breeding ewes on Oxton Park, a major sheep-grazing and cropping enterprise near Harden in southern NSW.

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Organic Study Uses Domestic Sheep to Facilitate Sustainable Farming

By Kelly Flynn

Environmental and economic management of weeds and pests is a priority for organic farmers and they typically use tillage to address these issues. However, frequent mechanical tillage can reduce soil integrity, which increases costs for farmers and negatively impacts future crop growth. Now, Montana State University (MSU) researchers are studying an alternate technique to manage these issues—domestic sheep.

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