Breeding ewe lambs to lamb down at one year old is a somewhat forgotten practice but it can significantly enhance the productivity and profitability of a sheep enterprise. When managed correctly, it ...

Bighorn sheep reintroduced to the Santa Catalina Mountains in 2013 have begun breeding — giving a boost to efforts to rebuild a bighorn herd that disappeared from the range in the 1990s, state ...

Kids who take on a breeding animal project for the Morgan County Fair make up a special group. This is a 12-month-a-year project, much longer than the ordinary projects, said breeding sheep Judge Glen ...

The Australian cattle industry underwent such a transformation to become more dominated by backgrounding and feedlot purchasing, and the lamb sector is moving in the same direction. The topic came up ...

The only way of understanding the breeding potential of sheep is to use estimated breeding values (EBVs). However, they should always be used alongside traditional visual assessment to indicate ...

Get ready for your daily dose of cuteness overload in the form of a rare Devon and Cornwall Longwool lamb, who has just about the cutest smile you'll ever see. I'm not saying I'd do anything to pet ...

For the second year in a row, we have seen the UK breeding flock decrease, with Defra’s December 2024 survey reporting a 5% ...

Last week marked a significant milestone for me. Wednesday was my one-year anniversary with the OSU Extension office here in Wayne County. was pretty excited to get the job last summer and I have to ...

A sustainable lamb-breeding programme devised by Morrisons is to receive a share of funding from the government’s £12m Agri-Tech Catalyst agriculture development programme. The breeding programme, a ...

Of the 2.1 million shedding lambs in the 27.4 million turnoff expected this season, more than half are coming from operations of less than 2000 sheep and lambs. Figures from the Sheep Producer ...

The first ever quads of a rare species of 'blacknose' lambs have been born in the UK. Adorable pictures show the four Valais Blacknose young that arrived at Whitehall Farm in Dumfriesshire, Scotland.