The Nadji hails from Saudi Arabia and is a multi-purpose breed used for meat, milk, and wool. These animals are tall, hardy, and have long silky hair and drooping ears. They’re typically black, with ...

Friesians are among the best sheep breeds for dairy. People have been keeping domesticated sheep for about 11,000 years. Among the earliest domesticated animals, sheep represent one of the most ...

Discover the charming Valais Blacknose Sheep, widely known as the world’s cutest sheep breed. Explore their origins, unique appearance, gentle nature, and growing popularity around the world.

Jenny Shepherd, with her apt surname, and her partner own the world's largest flock of Manx Loaghtans on Ballacosnahan Farm ...

A company in New Zealand has been perfecting the production of a special breed of sheep that it hopes will turn heads around the world. It was love at first sight for farmer Sally Strathdee when she ...

Though some ranchers offer supplemental soy- and grain-based feeds to pregnant or lactating ewes and their newborn lambs, Willow Spring Ranch adheres to the strict no-grain certification standards of ...

Hennie Jonker, an award-winning Hampshire Down stud breeder from Kroonstad, describes this sheep breed as a topmost mutton producer that provides sterling terminal sires for commercial and crossbred ...

Dormer sheep continue to dominate commercial meat systems with their fast growth, high weaning weights and impressive carcass ...

(Reuters) – The method for cloning animals such as the famed Dolly the Sheep can be patented, but the resulting animals themselves cannot, a U.S. federal appeals court has ruled. “Dolly’s genetic ...

A Jewish farming couple from Canada says it has shepherded the sheep of the bible back to the Holy Land after centuries in exile. With donations from Jewish and Christian supporters, and some help ...

Rare sheep on a remote Scottish island are being left to starve to death, it has been claimed. Soay sheep have roamed wild on the archipelago of St Kilda in the Outer Hebrides for thousands of years, ...