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Bleater by the dozen as Donegal farm welcomes dual sextuplet lambs

RTE 02 Apr 2025
A farmer in Ballintra, Co Donegal has his hands full this past fortnight as two sheep on his farm gave birth to six lambs each within a week ... two of those litters came from Lleyn and Belcare sheep, known to be prolific breeds.
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Kelvin Fletcher shares heartbreaking loss live on Lorraine after 'traumatic experience' with wife Liz at ...

The Daily Mail 02 Apr 2025
Kevin and Liz revealed they had already jumped into lambing season unexpectedly after a young male sheep ... They have a flock of rare-breed Cotswold sheep as well as chickens, alpacas, rabbits and pigs.
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Wildlife Officials Say Montana’s New Wolf Management Plan Sets a ‘Conservative Benchmark’ for Conservation

Flathead Beacon 31 Mar 2025
Even though they’re not killing them, when you have wolves running around your cattle or sheep, it does bother them and it can create, you know, less breeding,” Hertz said.
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St Andrews has a woolly solution to shifting sands

Golf Business News 28 Mar 2025
The St Andrews Links Trust is ...
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2,350 Minnesotans were sterilized under state’s 1925 eugenics law — most of them women

Pioneer Press 28 Mar 2025
Obsessed with the idea of perfecting the human race by means of selective breeding, Dight founded the Minnesota Eugenics Society in 1923. “Just as we have thoroughbred sheep, cattle and hogs, we ...
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The guardian dog breeds protecting farmer's stock

RNZ 27 Mar 2025
They may look like your usual bundle of fluff or large Labrador pup, but these Maremma sheepdogs are a breed of their own ... "We got smashed with this group of dogs that was coming through the property and tearing our sheep apart.".
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St Andrews to use rare sheep and Christmas trees in bid to protect famous golf course

Yahoo Daily News 27 Mar 2025
St Andrews is to use a mix of rare-breed sheep, 28,500 tonnes of sand and 6,500 Christmas trees to protect the Home of Golf from coastal erosion.
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Texas sheep and goat prices rise as supply tightens

San Saba News 26 Mar 2025
“Sheep and goats both have fairly seasonal breeding patterns, most breed in the fall and give birth in the spring, leading to a higher supply of lambs and kids in late summer,” Thorne said.
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Experienced farmer says Tasman's drought is worst he's seen

RNZ 26 Mar 2025
In one, a hind is standing in a water trough ... The farmer and long-time stock agent breeds stags for velvet and antler production. The land was previously used to farm sheep before being converted to farm deer, around 15 years ago ... ....
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Farmers struggle as severe drought grips Tasman District

NewstalkZB 26 Mar 2025
By Samantha Gee of RNZ ... The farmer and long-time stock agent breeds stags for velvet and antler production. The land was previously used to farm sheep before being converted to farm deer around 15 years ago ... Murchison farmer Alf Kinzett ... – RNZ. .
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Shocking moment BBC cameraman is headbutted to the ground by wild sheep - and is ...

The Daily Mail 24 Mar 2025
A worker introduced Kate Humble to Cecil, a Cameroon sheep which is one of the world's rarest breeds and originates from Africa ... A worker introduced Kate Humble to Cecil (pictured), a Cameroon sheep ...
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NADEC subsidiary signs financing agreement with ADF for up to SAR 1.1B

Eye Of Riyadh 24 Mar 2025
The funds will be used to establish a project focused on intensive livestock breeding (sheep and goats), reproduction, and meat production, NADEC said in a statement to Tadawul.
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From sporting honours to King Country shepherdess

RNZ 23 Mar 2025
"It's just a completely different type of sheep and beef, more intensive, so it's probably like what I'd describe it like, in-between sheep and beef and dairy almost.". Puketitiri runs 3500 breeding ...
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Feta, tsipouro, sausage… and off we go to Trikala

Ekathimerini 23 Mar 2025
Before the devastating weather event known as Storm Daniel, the region was (according to data from ELSTAT, the Hellenic Statistical Authority) home to 201,000 sheep, 72,000 goats, and 7,000 breeding sows.
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‘I’d shoot a dog attacking my sheep. I’d have every right to do so’

The Daily Telegraph 21 Mar 2025
A few years back, two dogs – a spaniel and a terrier with no owner in sight – got into one of my fields and began chasing my sheep. My farm is a 5,000-acre estate, on which 3,500 breeding ewes roam ... Farming, Dogs, Sheep, Scotland, England.

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