Like many other kids his age, Gage Sather loves animals. A sixth-grader at Louisa County Middle School, he balances maintaining his A average with 4-H and Future Farmers of America ...

It’s well-known that the Caribbean hair sheep breeds have a native resistance to parasites. I want to clarify that the some of the studies I cited in the article on the relationship between parasite ...

WUR is starting the Global Methane Genetics initiative, an international project to significantly reduce methane emissions from cows and sheep. The Animal Breeding and Genomic group is leading an ...

Forage for CH4nge project to assess how different sheep breeds compare in terms of their methane emissions when grazing on different types of grassland A new study investigating methane emissions ...

For livestock, performance means more of what humans value, such as pigs with extra ribs, prolific egg-laying hens and sheep with finer wool. Huge sums have been spent on selective breeding and ...

Let’s take a look with the aid of expert vet Dr Hannah Godfrey. Does a Weimaraner need a lot of exercise? Weimaraners are a high-energy breed and they need at least two hours of exercise each day to ...

It is based on the technique which produced Dolly, the first-ever cloned sheep. It is the first species ever to be “de-extincted,” although some scientists argue that they way it was done mean ...

A South African breed won the Supreme Sheep award at the Toowoomba Royal Show at a time when more producers in southern Queensland are turning to sheep, while an established Suffolk breeder picked ...

their dramatic cliffs home to thousands of colourful puffins and the unique Faroese sheep breed. He dives in freezing waters for giant horse mussels and plays electric bass with a Viking heavy ...

hear from Standard Bank on their sustainable finance mobilisation targets, and chat with a Limpopo farmer about a new sheep breed and the power of farming with friends.