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  2. Goat farming - Wikipedia

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    Goat farming can be very suited to production alongside other livestock (such as sheep and cattle) on low-quality grazing land. Goats efficiently convert sub-quality grazing matter that is less desirable for other livestock into quality lean meat. Furthermore, goats can be farmed with a relatively small area of pasture and with limited ...

  3. Animal product - Wikipedia

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    It uses between 20 and 33% of the world's fresh water, [11] Livestock, and the production of feed for them, occupy about a third of the Earth's ice-free land. [12] Livestock production contributes to species extinction, desertification, [13] and habitat destruction. [14] and is the primary driver of the Holocene extinction.

  4. Agricultural fencing - Wikipedia

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    Fladry lines, made of cloth, metal and/or other materials, are sometimes used on fences to discourage wolves from entering a livestock enclosure. Deer and many goats can easily jump an ordinary agricultural fence, and so special fencing is needed for farming goats or deer, or to keep wild deer out of farmland and gardens. Deer fence is often ...

  5. Livestock - Wikipedia

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    Livestock can serve as insurance against risk [45] and is an economic buffer (of income and food supply) in some regions and some economies (e.g., during some African droughts). However, its use as a buffer may sometimes be limited where alternatives are present, [ 46 ] which may reflect strategic maintenance of insurance in addition to a ...

  6. Goat - Wikipedia

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    The goat or domestic goat (Capra hircus) is a species of goat-antelope that is mostly kept as livestock. It was domesticated from the wild goat (C. aegagrus) of Southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. The goat is a member of the family Bovidae, meaning it is closely related to the sheep. It was one of the first animals to be domesticated, in Iran ...

  7. Animal husbandry - Wikipedia

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    Widely agreed types of livestock include cattle for beef and dairy, sheep, goats, pigs, and poultry. Various other species are sometimes considered livestock, such as horses, [47] while poultry birds are sometimes excluded. In some parts of the world, livestock includes species such as buffalo, and the South American camelids, the alpaca and llama.

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