When you see Burt DeGroot’s cows for the first time, you might feel like you’re visiting a zoo. You’re not that far off. DeGroot, of Snohomish, owns a rare breed of cattle. Ancient white park cattle ...

ELLENDALE, Minn. — When the Cowell family first started raising cattle, there weren’t many others in their area of southern Minnesota with the Highland breed. But that has changed dramatically in the ...

First, you have to understand that English Longhorns are very rare – there are only 40 in the United States, and the herd at Conner Prairie, an 850-acre park that includes breeding herds of rare ...

TRAPPE, Md. — New breeds of pint-sized heifers and bulls are making it easier for farmers with limited space to raise cattle for milk, meat or just fun. On Bill Bryan’s 50-acre spread on Maryland’s ...

The Jessen family’s farm is different from its western Weld County neighbors. The rarest animals on their farm are not the marsupials – a red kangaroo and a wallaby – they keep in a pen in their yard, ...

A very rare and world-famous Galloway bull is for sale along with his very cute herd. Called Arapuni Pride, the five-year-old ...

When an 800-pound cow stares you down, you take notice. When she's a new mother with a pair of two-foot horns pointed in your direction because you're a bit closer to her calf than she likes, you ...

Farmers in rural areas believe that they will make more money through livestock rearing by simply shifting from low-producing indigenous breeds to exotic ones. This however, has not worked very well ...

By Milliam MurigiLivestock in Africa contribute 18 percent of global livestock methane emissions, with cattle alone responsible for 70 percent of emissions in Sub-Saharan Africa.Methane is a potent ...

Brian Vander Ley, DVM, PhD, DACVPM, director of the Great Plains Veterinary Educational Center at the University of ...