John Shadd’s interest in whitetailed deer began long before he graduated from Union County High School in 1953.
He grew up hunting in the rural county.
Shadd now describes himself as “previously a hunter.”
Today his hobby is raising whitetails as stock animals on a game farm he developed on his former cattle farm outside Lake Butler. The [...]
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Agriculture officials said late Tuesday they’ve found about 4,000 dead cows in portions of two Southeast Texas counties searched in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike.
Some cows left stranded or that perished might never be found, though. “They’re being eaten by alligators,” said Kathleen Phillips, spokeswoman for the Texas AgriLife Extension Service.
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Canadian scientists have discovered a way to detect mad cow disease in urine, a finding that could lead to the first test for the infection in live animals.
Researchers, working with Germany’s Research Institute for Animal Health, found that changes in the level of a certain protein in cattle urine signaled the presence of bovine spongiform [...]
It’s the little cow with a big future. Rising supermarket prices are persuading hundreds of families to turn their back gardens into mini-ranches stocked with miniature cattle.
Registrations of the most popular breed, the Dexter, have doubled since the millennium and websites are sprouting up offering “the world’s most efficient, cutest and tastiest cows”.
For between £200 [...]
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The town rented a fence and is rounding up renegade cows that are out causing property damage, but stragglers remain, Carla Brown, the town’s animal control officer, said Tuesday.
“We’re down to eight that are on the loose,” she said.
The runaway cows are owned by local farmer Herbert Henderson and are getting out almost every day, [...]
The suspects are breaking out basically every day and they’re repeat offenders.
That’s what Carla Brown, Orrington’s animal control officer, said Friday about a group of renegade cows owned by local farmer Herbert Henderson.
Brown was dispatched to the area of the farm, which lies near the junction of the Dow Road and Center Drive, twice on [...]
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Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are using a new tool to find relationships between DNA markers and economically significant traits in cattle.
The new tool, called the Illumina BovineSNP50 BeadChip, is a glass slide containing thousands of DNA markers, some of which may be associated with important production traits such as disease resistance.
ARS researchers at the [...]
An effective vaccine against a parasite-borne disease called neosporosis may be a few steps closer to development, thanks to Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and cooperators.
Neosporosis, caused by the parasite Neospora caninum, affects cattle worldwide. Infected animals often abort their calves and develop other debilitating complications that can cost producers millions of dollars every year.
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The European Union’s top food safety agency said on Thursday cloned animal products may not be safe and further study was needed, prompting another battle of conscience within the bloc over the merits of new technology.
“It is clear there are significant animal health and welfare issues for surrogate mothers and clones that can be more [...]
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President of the Animal Welfare Institute Cathy Liss and Director of the Animal Welfare Approved program Andrew Gunther are pleased to announce a new initiative that will offer grants of up to $10,000 for the sole purpose of improving animal welfare on farms. Current Animal Welfare Approved farmers and those who have applied to join [...]
