Agony for Japan livestock farmers in nuclear crisis
By Shingo Ito (AFP) – 2 hours ago
FUKUSHIMA CITY, Japan — As more people are forced to leave their homes around the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, anger is growing in a farming community forced to make the agonising decision whether to...
A farmer in Devon has resorted to dyeing his sheep orange because he is so angry at thieves stealing from his flock.
ohn Heard put his 250 blackface ewes through a harmless dye to make them stand out and so less likely to be pinched.
‘It produces strange-looking sheep but it has done...
A sheep gave birth to a dog on a farm in China, claims its owner Liu Naiying, who has had people flocking to see the woolly 'lamb-puppy'.
Liu says he came across the lamb-dog in one of his fields shortly after it was born. And by 'born', he means his sheep was licking the creature and...
The more, the merrier is certainly true for Ziona Chana, a 66-year-old man in India's remote northeast who has 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren — and wouldn't mind having more.
They all live in a four-story building with 100 rooms in a mountainous village in Mizoram state, sharing...
Police in Virginia have charged a woman with felony counts of maiming livestock for allegedly decapitating one pig and stabbing another.
Ashley Marie Fowler, 21, of Portsmouth, has been charged with two felony counts of killing/maiming livestock, one count of misdemeanor vandalism and one...
A Big Month for Two-Headed Animals
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January has been a busy month for two-headed animals. But then, maybe it's supposed to be -- after all, the month is named after the two-headed Roman god, Janus.
Earlier this week, January saw its third two-headed calf...
Mini Moos: Miniature Cattle Are Cash Cows for Breeder
Yes, good things often come in small packages. We brought you a lot of animal stories in 2010, but the year ended in a bang on a Colorado farm with the birth of a rare miniature panda cow.
The calf, named Ben, arrived at the farm of...