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It's finally feeling like spring and there's a lot to do this weekend, including a long-running New England tradition.
Students in the Faculty of Agriculture joined in the shearing of the campus ewes and rams this month — freeing 750 pounds of ...
The highly anticipated Sheep 2025 event will take place this year on Saturday, 21 June at the Teagasc, Mellows Campus, ...
The Easter holidays have flown by and the farm is now devoid of the grubby faced, ever happy whirlwind that is the little guy ...
A sheep farmer says her "heart sinks" whenever she gets a call to say a dog is chasing her flock. Louise Elkington, 38, from ...
Two of the UK’s iconic native sheep breeds – the Manx Loaghtan and the Leicester Longwool breeds – are moved to the most urgent ‘Priority’ category in the new Rare Breeds Survival Trust (RBST) ...
It is time for the sheep at Shepherd's Cross in Claremore to get their yearly haircut. The farm is doing demonstrations over the weekend to educate people on the importance of sheep shearing and show ...
Veterinarians are considered trusted advisers with an integral role in the livestock industry. A recent survey released by ...
Woolly Weekend, a three-day "sheep to shawl" festival held at Shepherd's Cross on Route 66, started on Thursday.
Lewis Moon tends to Stella, a puppy training to be a sheep dog at Moon's ranch in Craig, Colo. The Moons raise sheep locally and use their home-grown wool to produce high quality yarns. The ...
The tail is the easy part,” Renee LaCoss, Shelburne Farms’ herdsman, said last Saturday as she handed a participant at the farm’s lambing clinic the tight rubber band that would ...
As the race to develop localised, regenerative and traceable supply chains heats up, British wool and leather have emerged as ...