Goats
Paddock to plate goats cheese
Jennifer Rodrigue and her husband David own a boutique cheese making operation, Belle Chèvre Creamery based in Waipu. What started out as a hobby has ended up in a Northland goat farm producing some… Audio
Goat farming in the greater Auckland area
Patumahoe farmer Matt Bolton runs the country's largest goat farming operation, milking more than 5,000 goats a day and demand for goat milk is growing. He runs two neighbouring properties, Oete Farm… Audio, Gallery
Counting the breeds - a census of rare breeds in NZ
The Rare Breeds Conservation Society wants to know how many rare breed animals are in New Zealand and where they are located. Audio
The Mood of Goats
Dr Gosia Zobel has been working to detect mood in goats and to see if putting them in a positive frame of mind will change the way they behave. Audio
Neighbours fight over sickly goat
Two Auckland women have locked horns over the fate of a sickly goat, who was picked up from a roadside paddock amid concerns he was on death's door. Video, Audio
The ten weirdest interpretations of Ode to Joy
The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra is performing Beethoven’s highly recognisable Ninth Symphony this weekend. We count down the ten most interesting interpretations of the famous ‘Ode to Joy’ theme… Video
Mohair, mo' money: farming Angora goats in Canterbury
Glenn Gamble has a flock of 400 mohair-producing Angora goats on his Canterbury farm. He says their fleece sells for a much higher price than the wool from his crossbred sheep. Audio
Sweet Thistles - Four legged pest control
AgResearch has set up a trial to see when goats find thistles most palatable. It's hoping they will eat the flowers and prevent thistles seeding. Audio
The New Buzz on Mustering
The King Country's John Gray has spent years working with sheep. Now he's combining his skills as a stockman, his trusty dogs and a drone to round up feral goats. Many landowners paying him to clear… Audio, Gallery
$30m for Dairy Goat Research
A Primary Growth Partnership programme between the government and the Waikato-based Dairy Goat Co-operative will see $29.6 million dollars funnelled into research in the hope it'll lead to an almost… Audio
70 feral goats shot on Banks Peninsula in DoC trial
Farmers are hoping a trial to rid part of the Banks Peninsula of feral goats will finally get rid of the pest. Logan Church put on his hiking boots and went to Banks Peninsula to see what is being… Video, Audio
How do you know a goat is happy?
In the future we will need to better understand animal emotions so we can prove our farm animals are well looked after, says Jim Webster. He's part of an AgResearch Animal Welfare Team that's been… Audio
The Drunken Nanny
Wairarapa sheep and beef farming couple Amanda and Lindsey Goodman have now added dairy goats to the mix. Lindsey squeezes in milking once a day and Amanda makes award-winning fresh goats cheese. Audio, Gallery
Goats give hope
Geoff Copstick, a Northland angora goat farmer, is also chairman of international aid agency ChildFund NZ. He says his rural roots mean he has a lot in common with aid projects involving animals and… Audio
He's goat your back
A new study has found that goats can link visual and audio cues to identify if another goat is a friend or not.
Salty River Farm
Daryn Rickwood and Louise Penny were leading an urban life before they bought and moved onto a 20 hectare block near Wellsford. They've started raising goats for meat and have plans to milk them too… Audio, Gallery
Oxville Farms
David Anderson, his son Neil and daughter-in-law Leah Stone have set up a tiny, licensed abattoir on their farm, half an hour from Whangarei. It can process up to 30 animals each day and puts through… Audio
Thomas Thwaites: acting the goat
Kim Hill talks to designer Thomas Thwaites, whose new book, GoatMan, tells about how he took a holiday from being human by becoming a goat in Switzerland, using special prostheses and attempting to… Audio, Gallery
Philip Armstrong: sheep
Kim Hill talks to the Head of the Department of English at the University of Canterbury, and co-director of New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies about his new book, Sheep. Audio
Goats on the loose in West Coast's Blackball
Sixteen goats are on the loose in Blackball, on the West Coast, and the Grey District Council is looking for their owner. Video, Audio