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

Sheep shaped human history for 12,000 years. Scientists traced their migration, domestication, and genetic evolution.

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 ...

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

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 ...

Two Tipperary friends have fused years of friendship, pharmacy and food to bring a natural bodycare range using sheep milk, Bánór, to life. Elaine Crosse and Nicola Lyons, have used their skillset to ...

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

It does not contain naturally occurring lactose milk sugars, which some are sensitive to. It does contain about 22 grams of carbohydrates, which is an issue for those with diabetes or who wish to ...

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

Goat and sheep breeders will march to the presidential palace in Nicosia on February 11, demanding that the agriculture minister enforce her own decree mandating a 5 per cent annual increase in the ...

Each year, the UK sheep industry lambs 15m breeding ewes in a huge variety of systems and locations. From sea level to hill ...