Livestock

Maintaining good gut health in piglets is a greater challenge following the removal of therapeutic zinc oxide, but new research shows the benefits of focusing on this key area

Maintaining good gut health in piglets is a greater challenge following the removal of therapeutic zinc oxide, but new research shows the benefits of focusing on this key area

After a poor start to the year when the sheep industry seemed steeped in doom and gloom, the outlook now appears much more positive.

Norfolk Police said they charged three women regarding the theft of three lambs from a farm in West Newton

Cranswick plans for West Norfolk base to house 870,000 chickens and 14,000 pigs will cause nothing but 'distress and disturbance', say residents group

The inaugural consignment of UK ovine embryos arrived in the US on August 16, 2023

Farming Community Network said it hoped the delivery of wellbeing training to bodies such as the Animal and Plant Health Agency and Natural England would lead to more empathetic conversations with farmers

At the moment in-calf cows and heifers which fail bovine TB tests must be culled on-farm before giving birth

Identifying residual disease risk in Pembrokeshire will be at the project’s core, alongside developing a pathway to reduce cattle-to-cattle transmission

Beef Shorthorn Cattle Society president, Tim Riley runs the Stoneyroyd herd in the Calder Valley, West Yorkshire