Tag: livestock
Smashing pumpkins, feeding livestock: Rescue program a win-win
News Local News A big push in Oxford County to intercept used Halloween pumpkins before they hit the landfill had its most successful haul yet, its lead organizer says. Author…
Doubts about the usefulness of innovative low-emission stables put an end to the expansion of livestock farms
Commissioner Mirjam Sterk of the province of Utrecht is disappointed. “For farmers who have invested in these low-emission floors in recent years, this ruling is another blow. Not only financially,…
Bizet sheep to improve the Senegalese livestock
A few days before Tabaski, the Aïd-el-Kébir feast of the sacrifice of the sheep, France gave, in Senegal, on July 7, a ram and two ewes of the Bizet breed…
Hit by Rift Valley fever, Burundi worries about its livestock
In Burundi, a country of agriculture and livestock which has some 700,000 cows panic for its livestock, farmers fearing to lose their main wealth. For the first time in its…
Ten Animals Used in War
As far back as humans have been at war with each other, they have enlisted animals to support them. Horses, of course. But also all sorts of other innocent creatures.…