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Scrapie updates in goats and sheep for 2025

Episode 151For the Love of Goats As goat owners, understanding diseases that can affect our herds is crucial for maintaining ...
We have a major problem with domestic sheep diseases causing the demise of native bighorn sheep on our western public lands. Domestic sheep are carriers of the diseases Mannheimia haemolycta, which ...
The Pikeview Quarry, barely outside of the cul-de-sacs and two-car garages of the Mountain Shadows subdivision, seemed like an odd place to find one of Colorado’s most intrepid species. Bulldozers, ...
The Federal Ministry of Livestock Development has inaugurated a 33-member National Technical Working Group (TWG) to ...
HOPKINS, Mich.— A family in Hopkins is making it their mission to help out a special research project aimed at finding a cure, or at the very least, a treatment, for Huntington’s Disease. Mike and ...
Like the majority of Colorado’s big game species, the success of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep is up against habitat loss and disturbances, a changing climate and growing recreation and human pressure.
LOVELAND (AP) – Majestic bighorn sheep deftly dart up and down the steep, jagged walls of canyons throughout Colorado, delighting wildlife watchers when they spot the iconic Colorado animal that, just ...
Transmission of prion brain diseases such as bovine spongiform enecephalopathy (BSE) -- also known as mad cow disease -- and human variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) is generally attributed to ...
It’s no surprise that a state as unique and fascinating as Nevada chose an equally exceptional animal as its symbol. Nevada, ...
A man spoted sharing a piece of mango with a ram at Wei Wei trading center in west pokot county. [Christopher Kipsang, Standard] Dear Daktari, I keep sheep, I have been doing this for quite a while ...