Sep. 28—Goats can wreak havoc around the farm with their horns, breaking through fences, impaling their ungulate brethren and even violently butting unsuspecting farmers. The decision about whether to ...

Bouncing baby goats! There’s no more joyful sight on the spring homestead. We stand around watching them for hours. They are full of vitality and energy, the best advertisement possible for drinking ...

The Iowa State University Extension and Outreach dairy team will continue its quarterly dairy goat webinar focusing on “Disbudding Management” June 2 from noon to 1:15 p.m. Over the last several years ...

Horrific hidden camera vision shows baby goats screaming in agony as their horn buds are burnt off with hot irons at a Victorian farm. The practice, known as ‘disbudding’, prevents the growth of a ...

The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) has clarified the legal position on the disbudding of goats, following recent media reports concerning undercover filming on UK goat farms. The RCVS is ...

If you’ve ever disbudded a goat kid and later noticed what looks like a tiny horn or a hard, twisted lump growing where the horn bud was, you’ve encountered one of the most frustrating side effects of ...

Goat kids are frequently disbudded in intensively farmed units to reduce the number of accidental injuries to other animals and farm workers due to horn growth. The most commonly used method is ...

The animal activist organisation responsible for creating a controversial online map of Australian farms has released vision from inside a farm owned by the well-known Meredith Dairy, in south-west ...

We evaluated the effect of pain mitigation strategies (isoflurane and meloxicam) on the behaviour and physiology of 3-week-old disbudded goat kids. Fifty Saanen does (mean ± SD, 21 ± 3 days old) were ...

Mar. 20—This story was originally published in September of 2021. Goats can wreak havoc around the farm with their horns, breaking through fences, impaling their ungulate brethren and even violently ...