Successful lambing and kidding is critical to the profitability of sheep and goat operations. The lambing and kidding time period poses one of the biggest risks to profitability in the annual ...

EXPANDING A FLOCK without a big capital investment can be difficult in traditional indoor lambing systems, but moving to lambing in May can solve the problem, says Northants producer Phil King. “We ...

High-quality red and white clover silages have allowed a Powys sheep farm to shave nearly £2 a head from the purchased feed ...

ESSEX, New York — It's pitch dark and cold enough we can see our breath in our headlamps when Kristin Kimball leads me inside her barn. "It's about 5:30 a.m. and the sun is thinking about coming up," ...

Spring is my favorite time of year. It’s when our lambs are born. We originally starting raising Katahdin hair sheep as a more entertaining way of keeping our pasture areas mowed. We also chose this ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – The spring snow storms are once again proving to be a challenge for South Dakota farmers in the middle of lambing season. Last year’s extreme winter and the recent bout of ...

Heavy rainfall is having a "devastating" impact on lambing and crops, farmers have warned. If lambs do not have dry ground to lie on, hypothermia often affects newborns and can be fatal. Provisional ...

It's the time of year when new lambs are born, and for some shepherds, the process raises difficult questions. If you're a farmer of sheep, it's the busiest time of the year - lambing season. In the U ...

Traffic on local roads has been noticeably lighter of late as our seasonal residents take wing. That leaves locals to enjoy the heart of spring with its warm nights and lush flora. As evidenced by a ...

Located in fertile and beautiful land between the Trossachs in the north and the Campsie Fells to the south, Arnprior Farm, in the small village of Arnprior a few miles east of Loch Lomond, is a mixed ...

We may be in lockdown, but Mother Nature is carrying on regardless, as farmers with newborn lambs across Kent will testify. As all the county's popular lambing weekends this year had to be cancelled ...

Whenever winter finally comes to a close, I think back on our journey to where we are now, and every now and then I become a little homesick. Homesick for my nieces and nephews, my sisters and brother ...