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How many badgers are infected, will enough badgers be culled and is it all worth it? Here is a guide to the recent badger cull Most badgers aren't infected, is that correct? The largest study of bovine tuberculosis (TB) in badgers was the randomised badger culling trial, RBCT, which reported...

A fish silage for feeding livestock is next in line to be commercialised from processed fish offal. United Fisheries recently introduced two liquid fish fertilisers and researchers at Lincoln university are currently working with fish silage in a 50-50 project in partneship with Seafood...

Introduction Many times I have discussed and you have read the importance of managing body condition of your cow herd. Body condition at calving, for spring-calving cows, has a major impact on reproductive performance during the next breeding season. Cows and 1st-calf-females in good body...

Guidelines to determining the best calf weaning age As a principle, the sooner calves are weaned the greater will be the potential turnoff of young cattle. Earlier weaning age is the single most important way to increase weaner throughput. The keys to maximising the benefits of weaning age to...

http://www.plospathogens.org/article/in ... at.1002340 is the link of original research paper, I dont think so they do it so openly , they rather try to patent it first

Hi that picture is made by me , so i watermarked it , the research wasnt conducted by Pakistan , if i get u right

Scientists have developed a technique using a harmless parasite, which lives in cows but has no effect on their health, to carry medicines into the animals' bloodstream. Researchers created the vaccine by inserting key genetic material from a vaccine into the parasite's DNA. The manipulated...

FUKUSHIMA, Japan – Beef exports from Japan’s Fukushima prefecture will resume for the first time in more than a year, according to RTT News. Fukushima was one of several prefectures, or provinces, that had stopped exporting beef to the US after a nuclear power plant there was damaged during a...

When Christian Oesch was a boy on his family's hog farm, cellphones were a thing of the future. Now, Mr. Oesch tends a herd of dairy cattle and carries a smartphone wherever he goes. Occasionally he gets an SMS from one of his cows. That is because Mr. Oesch, 60, who cares for a herd of 44 Red...

VOLBORG, Mont. — Cecil and Delores Kolka thought they escaped the worst of the Ash Creek Fire when the 390-square-mile blaze spared their home and several pastures as it ripped through the couple’s Montana cattle ranch. But when the family went to round up their livestock they encountered...

It may not be commonplace to see a beef farmer leafing through a semen cataloged to select the best genetics for their herd, but more and more are beginning to realize the potential of artificial insemination. And with difficult calvings becoming a common problem on many beef enterprises, the...

Horses were domesticated 6,000 years ago on the grasslands of Ukraine, southwest Russia and west Kazakhstan, a genetic study shows. Domestic horses then spread across Europe and Asia, breeding with wild mares along the way, research published in the journal PNAS suggests. The work, by a...

U.S. Border Patrol agents recently seized 10 adult horses and four yearlings as they attempted to enter Texas illegally by walking across the Rio Grande River near Indian Hot Springs, in southern Hudspeth county, south of El Paso. The animals were turned over to the United States Department of...

The U.S. Agriculture Department confirmed on Tuesday that it found a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease, the nation's fourth, in a dairy cow in California. http://agrinewspk.blogspot.com/2012/04/ ... ornia.html

Hospital Performs Rare Surgical Operation In an unprecedented event, the Kuwait Veterinary Hospital for Horses managed to perform a rare surgical operation lasting 3 hours to remove a tumor weighing 13kg from the uterus of a horse named "Wahu", says KUNA...