CropsJaisalmer got half its normal monsoon rain, fodder prices have more than doubled, 216 of the state's 693 dams are empty and Jodhpur-zone reservoirs hold 15.72% of capacity, yet no drought has been declared.
IslamAqiqah on the seventh day after birth is recommended, two goats for a boy and one for a girl. The meat may be given raw or cooked, but Aisha, Imam al-Nawawi and Ibn Qudamah preferred cooking it and feeding others.
LivestockDiarrhoea, or scours, is one of the commonest killers of newborn lambs and kids. South African vets and farmers say clean kraals, colostrum within 12 hours and vaccination before birth are the best defence.
LivestockAn Agricultural Research Council programme in Jozini, KwaZulu-Natal, is bringing animal identification, performance records and genetic data into the breeding decisions of communal goat farmers, with the aim of lifting production and opening access to formal markets.
LivestockUnder the PPR eradication and foot-and-mouth disease control project, goats and sheep aged 3 to 12 months are being vaccinated free in the five unions and municipality of Naldanga, Natore.
Capricious LLC in Beaver County sends groups of mostly rescued goats to eat invasive brush on homes and municipal land from May to October, and earns more from a forest carbon programme.
At a side event of the One Health conference in Rome, state minister Sultan Salauddin Tuku said Bangladesh is committed to PPR-free status by 2030.
A Cross Timbers study found cattle and goats eat different plants through the year, so running both on the same Texas rangeland uses more of the forage, applies browsing pressure to invasive brush and adds resilience in drought.
The EU has seen more than 1,750 wildfires this summer; grazing herds eat the scrub that feeds them, but after 27,000 hectares burned near Madrid the government plans goats on only 3,700, far less than needed.
LivestockAhead of Eid-ul-Azha in May 2026, traders at Dhaka's Gabtoli cattle market had sold only a handful of animals, as buyers looked around and complained that prices were too high.
LivestockKhorshed Alam of Durgapur Dighaltari in Aditmari upazila, Lalmonirhat, built a light cart pulled by his two pet goats, and local people were surprised to see his children riding in it on polling day, 12 February 2026.
LivestockJagonews24 opened a series on livestock diseases on 29 August 2017 with blood dysentery, or coccidiosis, a gut infection of cattle, buffalo, goats and sheep caused by single-celled Eimeria parasites. Here are its signs and prevention, with research published up to 2017.
