From playful and curious goats to cute and cuddly lambs, you could easily be forgiven for mistaking sheep and goats for one ...

1 of 9 Anna Doering and her sheep, Helen, at the Blue Earth County Fair. R. J. Kern’s book, The Sheep and the Goats, will be published in spring 2018 by Kehrer Verlag.

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 ...