"We lambed her and they just kept on coming." The lambs were birthed backwards but all survived and "were straight up" on their legs. "They are all nice and healthy, I fed them at 05:00 and they ...
Stories of dismay but also resilience as crisis in food production builds after 18 months of exceptionally wet weather ...
The highly infectious sheep and goat disease Q fever has been found on a farm in Gelderland, in what is the first case in the ...
Our group of pure ewes used for breeding tups, have already lambed and in a much shorter period of time this year as I chose to sponge them in a bid to tighten them up. Tups served the ewes naturally ...
After a last round through the lambing fields and a final walk past the shed pens, finally persuading the pet lambs to quiet down after ...
The tornado that occurred in Delaware County late Thursday night, March 14, caused severe damage to homes and barns and downed many trees, causing electricity outages. At Stratford Ecological Center ...
Both diseases pose a significant challenge at present, with weather providing an ideal environment for high risk in 2024.
Brian Keane is still battling the effects of a barber’s pole worm infection on his 237ac Wexford farm last summer, with a ...
Currently the Wild Dog Control Program allows the control of dingoes where they threaten livestock, with wild dogs declared ...
The lambing percentage was lower, as a result [the percentage of ewes exposed to a ram per breeding period that have lambed]. It’s just been hard work. You get up in the morning and you don’t ...