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 [...]
Continue reading about Just right for the garden: a mini-cow
Forget cow tipping—next time you want to mess with a bovine friend, try waving a magnet in its face.
Researchers have found that when grazing or resting, cattle and deer tend to point their bodies toward Earth’s magnetic poles, which suggests they are able to sense magnetic fields in the same way as many smaller animals.
Click [...]
Continue reading about Moo North: Cattle and Deer May Sense Earth’s Magnetic Field
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, [...]
Hygiene, Colorado, may want a new town motto, “Home of the Watch Cow.” Apple, a 2-year-old Angus, who is more pet than livestock, wasn’t too happy when a bear tried to move-in to her favorite tree. In fact, she just couldn’t bear it!
Apple has lived in a pasture behind Nancy Dayton’s home for more than [...]
A Del Norte County dairy has ended its raw milk program after more than a dozen people fell ill, including a woman who became partially paralyzed.
The raw milk came from Alexandre Family EcoDairy Farms, which supplied the product to 115 customers.
The county’s Department of Public Health suspects at least 15 people were sickened by Campylobacter, [...]
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 [...]
Continue reading about Orrington: Runaway cows causing ruckus
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 [...]
There is an aura of content among the donkeys, cows, pigs, goats, horses, rabbits and cats at Rosia Kennedy’s Rainbow End Farm in Granby.
Kennedy rescued all of the 45 animals at the 8-acre farm from abuse, neglect or slaughter. Today they live in stalls and cages kept spic-and-span by Kennedy, a wiry 4-foot-11-inch woman with [...]
Continue reading about Animals Find Sanctuary At Rainbow End Farm
Converting livestock manure into a domestic renewable fuel source could generate enough electricity to meet up to three per cent of North America’s entire consumption needs and lead to a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), according to new research.
The research has implications for all countries with livestock as it is the first attempt [...]
Continue reading about Cow Power Could Generate Electricity For Millions
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 [...]
