Most sheep have thick wool coats and need to be sheared every year to prevent them from overheating during the summer months. Goats have hair on their bodies and don’t need to be sheared.

Cashmere goats have two layers of hair — thick wiry guard hairs and a super-soft cashmere undercoat. While a sheep can produce at least 3 kilos of wool each year, a cashmere goat will only give ...

A microgrant from The Livestock Conservancy will help Barbados Blackbelly Sheep breeders bring more animals into the fold.

Most of the world’s more than 2 billion sheep and goats are grazed on range in countries such as Australia and New Zealand. Farmers in the United States raised nearly 5.02 million sheep and 2.51 ...