Idol said the goat had "just been cruising the neighborhood," for months, indiscriminately munching on all manner of vegetation. Tuesday when he saw the goat huddled down in the crevice of a red-dirt embankment, about an 8-foot drop from the cliff above. After prowling the Pine Forest Road neighborhood near Browns Bridge for months, ravaging any garden in his path and eluding animal control officers, the black and white billy goat with the massive set of horns was spotted by boaters...

The goodness of goats E-mail this page E-mail a letter to the editor Reader Comments (below) By ALAN CROWELL Staff Writer Sunday, April 29, 2007 enlarge Staff photo by Jim Evans Abby Pirri plays with her parent's goats during the Sherman Farm's goat enterprise open house Saturday in Fairfield. The goodness of goats E-mail this page E-mail a letter to the editor Reader Comments (below) By ALAN CROWELL Staff Writer Sunday, April 29, 2007 enlarge Staff photo by Jim Evans Abby Pirri plays with...

We just couldn't resist the funny picture that showed a lamb made to look like a puffy poodle -- though we did note that it was a "supposed" lamb poodle. We figured there was something just too-good-to-be-true about the fake poodles story that appeared yesterday in Britain's Sun newspaper. Perhaps we shouldn't have been so quick with the lamb-poodle stories. No one, to our knowledge, is peddling lambs groomed to look like poodles. As the debunkers at Snopes say, "this sounds like yet...

This annual shearing school has been offered to individuals seeking experience and knowledge about shearing, wool evaluation, and sheep production since 1977. In addition to teaching the skills of shearing and associated equipment information and care, students learn various aspects of wool marketing and production, and sheep husbandry. The students that attend the WSSP Shearing School are not only providing a service to sheep producers in the Pacific Northwest, but they are also an...

The parlor's stanchions are smaller and the milking machines have two cups instead of four, but the pre- and post- milking procedures are almost identical to dairy cow procedures. They wanted to work on the farm, but they needed more income before they could do it. Dairy goat farm plans expansion. Their venture started in 2001 when they purchased meat goats. Milking time will take two hours once they expand to 200 milking goats later this summer. They plan to graze the goats in spring,...