A small grassland farm is turning profits from sheep, sucklers and dairy heifer rearing for a dairy breeding consultant cum ...

Sheep have been part of human life for over 11,000 years. First domesticated in the western Fertile Crescent, their impact ...

Now it’s more like seven to every New Zealander. Blame cows, which are now bringing home the bacon. Huge tracts of flatland once used for sheep farming were converted to dairy pastures as the global ...

The University of Wisconsin-Madison plans to end its dairy sheep research program and get rid of hundreds of ewes in northwestern Wisconsin. The Department of Animal Sciences officials say it’s no ...

Goat and sheep farmers marched on the presidential palace on Tuesday demanding greater security for producers of halloumi and threatening further measures if no action is taken.The farmers described ...

Sheep have been intertwined with human livelihoods for over 11,000 years. As well as meat, their domestication led to humans ...

Milk from animals, including cows, goats, sheep and humans, all contains lactose. Intolerance to lactose occurs when you don’t produce enough lactase, an enzyme in your gut that breaks lactose down.

Ancient DNA analysis reveals that sheep were domesticated over 11,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent. By 8,000 years ago, ...

A bill granting easier access to raw milk, allowing farmers to sell unpasteurized milk at farmer's markets or via delivery, ...

Ewe nutrition in late gestation has a profound effect on lamb birth weights, colostrum quality and yield and ewe mothering ...