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A Tararua District farmer has been banned from owning farm animals and placed on six months' community detention after neglecting hundreds of sheep. On Monday, Noel Thomas Cunningham, 64, of Woodville ...
Silverburn, Glasgow’s leading shopping and leisure destination, has announced that Black Sheep Coffee has opened its doors, serving as a sanctuary for coffee lovers. The new store offers its signature ...
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 ...
QUEENSLAND’S Rural and Stock Crime Squad is investigating the theft of 21 stud Poll Dorset and Border Leicester sheep from a property at Mount Whitestone, south-east of Toowoomba. Detective Senior ...
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 ...
Recent upward momentum in the sheep trade continues, with the two Irish Country Meats (ICM) plants in Camolin and Navan increasing their base quotes for hoggets and lambs by 10c/kg on Monday. This ...
Heavy ewes sold up to $225 a head at the Bendigo saleyards on March 31. Dohne genetics are not only adding growth potential and milk but also boosting the wool income for a north-east Victorian ...
Lambskin condoms, sometimes also known as natural condoms or natural membrane condoms, are a type of external condom made from the intestines of lambs and sometimes sheep. While lambskin condoms are ...
Buffalo, similar to cows, have four stomachs and the two that are most favoured are the honeycomb, named for its honeycomb texture inside and the Bible, scientifically known as the omasum, named for ...
Northland shearer Toa Henderson shore 25 second-shear sheep in under 20 minutes to complete a 2025 Golden Shears and New Zealand Championships Open titles double in Te Kuiti last night (Saturday).
The world’s first-ever case of bird flu in sheep was identified in Yorkshire last week, while dairy farmers have been grappling with an outbreak of the virus in cattle in the US for the past year.
Te Kūiti has opened its main street to welcome a herd of hundreds of sheep running the gauntlet, for its annual Great New Zealand Muster festival. The event promised musicians, arts and crafts stalls, ...