“In fact, as total antimicrobials use has reduced, mastitis rates and bulk somatic cell counts have also reduced, and there hasn’t been a rise in culling for mastitis or an increase in the ...

We are only a matter of days away until calving starts, which means many cows are in their transition period where the risk of mastitis increases drastically. The brushing and liming of cubicles and ...

The booming solar industry has found an unlikely mascot in sheep as large-scale solar farms crop up across the US. In Milam County, outside Austin, SB Energy operates the fifth-largest solar ...

Ayrshire farmers Wallace and James Hendrie discovered an increase in mastitis infections causing high cell counts in their herd as a consequence of reducing their calving block. As mastitis infections ...

Few people have spent time gazing into a sheep’s eyes, but if you have, you may have noticed something very strange about their pupils. Instead of being round, as is the case with humans ...

Few people have spent time gazing into a sheep’s eyes, but if you have, you may have noticed something very strange about their pupils. Instead of being round, as is the case with humans, they are ...

A farmer has been sentenced for the "shocking and cruel" mistreatment of his sheep. Dead animals were found decaying in and around buildings used by Daniel Hayward and about 30 of his flock ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Thousands of sheep graze across rural Texas plains to maintain vegetation at one of the country’s largest ...

Animal rights organisation PETA hopes an official investigation into alleged animal abuse on sheep farms will result in criminal convictions. The Ministry for Primary Industries has finished the first ...

PETA's undercover video footage showed workers standing on a sheep's neck, dragging sheep across the floor, sewing up a bloody wound without painkillers. Multiple investigations were launched after ...

Imbert-Vier said Europeans risk “getting sucked into a system where they don’t think anymore and just become submissive, consumer sheep for hire”. The only remedy, he said, is for Europe to ...

If the lamb hasn’t fed it will be very hollow. It’s a good idea to do this twice a day for the first 36—48 hours after birth - it will allow you to pick up problems quickly, for instance a ewe ...