By Erica Quinlan
The Indiana State Fair Board approved a new 2016 State Fair Livestock Schedule, making a few changes from the normal timetable.
Month: December 2015
Getting Ready for Lambing & Kidding 2015
By University of Maryland Extension Small Ruminant Program
Gone to the goats: Herd helps recycle trees
By Kelsey Fitzgerald
On a cold Sunday in mid-December, 30 brown, black and white goats stood in a corral in Washoe Valley munching on hay and Christmas tree branches. The wind blew hard and the afternoon light grew dim as the sun dipped below the Carson Range, but the goats—an assortment of South African Boers, New Zealand Kikos and Alpines—chewed enthusiastically on.
Whole-ly sheep! Ewe found with a massively overgrown fleece weighing 30 KILOS after it wandered off a farm months ago
By Matt Ogilvie and Nicole Low for Daily Mail Australia and AAP
Buckland farmer Derek Turvey found the ewe wandering around his south-eastern Tasmania farm. He called her Sheila and he believes that the animal hasn’t been shorn in over seven years. The farmer has laid down a challenge to any shearer who is game enough to shear Sheila’s thick coat. He expects Sheila’s fleece to weigh up to 30 kilograms after she has been relived of her heavy burden. Chris the sheep holds the record for the most wool sheared from a sheep in September, which is 41.10kg.
Extreme sheep herding footage from Wales is amazing – but how did it happen?
By Harry Yorke
The clip shows a team of farmers known as the BaaaStuds showcasing their expert sheepdog skills… and creating something incredible
It’s a real Christmas miracle! ‘Virgin’ sheep gives birth to twin lambs
By Richard Hartley-Parkinson
Farmers have hailed a ‘Christmas miracle’ after a ‘virgin’ ewe gave birth to twin lambs.
How Sheep Reshaped the State
By Ric Cengeri & Sam Gale Rosen
Sheep farming remade the Vermont economy and physical landscape to an astonishing degree in the 19th century. At the height of what’s been called the “sheep craze”, there were well over a million sheep in the state, about six times the human population. Where did they all go? We’re looking at the history of sheep cultivation in Vermont – and taking stock of the current state of sheep farming.
Goat Meat for the Holidays
By Dan
If you’re still trying to decide what to serve at the dinner table or at your next holiday party, something different to consider: goat meat. Cathy Isom has some different suggestions to add goat meat to your Holiday gathering.
The Doc’s goat milk products are in
By Amie Sites
What started as not wanting to see two pails of lard go to waste turned in to a hobby of making soaps and lotions.
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