Poor Billy. He never saw it coming./sHis owner, Beth Kornegay, stepped out on the porch and shouted, "Hey girls!" to the dogs gathered in the front yard. Billy, a fainting goat, keeled over from the ...

We’ve learned a lot about fainting goats — also known as stiff-legged goats and nervous goats, goats whose propensity for falling down have earned them their own international society — since we heard ...

According to The Livestock Conservancy, an organization that works to preserve heritage breeds, myotonic or Tennessee fainting goats were first bred in the 1880s, when a farmer named John Tinsley ...

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It was all part of a science experiment. The kids were learning about a unique breed of goats that have a genetic disorder that causes them to faint whenever they get scared. The students had fun ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. RANDOLPH COUNTY, N.C. – A couple of young ...