Livestock News

Mother and daughter Elaine and Issy Hartley, of the Pendle flock, Roughlee, Nelson, stood both champion and reserve with twin March 2024-born pedigree Blue Texel lambs.

Provita Eurotech Ltd’s independent veterinary consultant Dr TB Barragry offers advice on foot hygiene and foot bathing, to get DD under control.

Farmers are being warned to take extra care with medications after a working sheepdog swallowed a hormone implant used on sheep.

Insights from the research will help develop tools for farmers to analyse the risk and impact of heat stress on-farm.

Females peaked at 700gns on three occasions at the Merry Belles sale at Welshpool Livestock Sales’ principal centre on Thursday, 12th December 2024.

Hartpury University and Hartpury College’s Home Farm has installed a state-of-the-art robotic milking system that allows a cow to be milked when it wants, which can be up to three times a day on average.

More than six tonnes of illegal meat were seized at Dover Port during a 14-hour period at the beginning of December.

Another dog attack on livestock happened in Suffolk in the space of just two weeks, seeing three sheep being killed by out-of-control dogs. 

A plant-based drink company, Oatly, has lost the right to call its vegan drinks ‘milk’ following a court battle.

The High Court has recently dismissed an appeal by the activist group, The Humane League, following its previous discharge of the group’s claims that the Defra secretary of state was acting unlawfully in allowing so-called ‘fast-growing chickens’. 

Following detections of avian influenza in poultry, wild and captive birds across the East Riding of Yorkshire, City of Kingston Upon Hull, Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Suffolk, a prevention zone has been declared across the region to mitigate the risk of further outbreaks of the disease. 

A pregnant ewe was attacked and killed by a dog in a field in Lavenham, Suffolk.