Drug-resistant roundworms prompt search for new treatments

By: Emma Hiolski

Picture an open pasture with woolly sheep grazing on lush green grass. Idyllic, right? What’s not so idyllic is that inside some of these animals’ guts, deadly parasitic worms could be thriving, sucking blood from the animals’ stomachs and depriving them of nutrients. Researchers around the world have reported finding drug-resistant roundworms—some resistant to multiple classes of standard treatments—in every type of livestock host, including sheep, cattle, and goats.

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Get ready for world’s largest livestock show

By: Ashley Langreck

The end of October marks the start of the North American International Livestock Exposition, billed as the largest all-breed, purebred livestock event in the world.

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How to Amplify Instincts in Your Working Dogs

By: Denice Rackley

As Denice described in Success With Stockdogs, instinct is an important part of working with your dog. Here she gives examples of how, as trainers, we can work with, and amplify, those instincts.

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Advantages of Grass-Legume Mixes for Hay and Grazing

By: Heather Smith-Thomas

Research projects have been done over the years in various states, looking at the potential and possible advantages of grass-legume mixtures for hay and pasture.

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What’s causing lameness in your sheep?

By: Sean Mannion

Every sheep farmer has lame sheep. Lameness is one of the most common and persistent disease problems in Irish sheep flocks.

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Goat-Herding Dog Refused To Abandon Flock Amid Firestorm, Miraculously Survived

SANTA ROSA (CBS SF) — With the deadly flames of the Tubbs Fire bearing down on his property, Roland Tembo Hendel knew it was time to round up his family, dogs and cats flee.

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Women of the Wool

By: Rebecca Bengel

Eight or so years ago, the photographer Nich Hance McElroy walked into a public library in New Mexico where a poster beckoned: Learn to Shear Sheep! McElroy was intrigued. In Alaska, where he had begun spending part of each year working on a musk ox ranch (the animals are hand-combed annually, and their collected long hair, or qiviut, is harvested as wool), people often came looking for someone to shear their sheep, too. McElroy decided to check it out.

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