Don Chavez, a rancher near Albuquerque, New Mexico, has a different mission from most sheep ranchers. He doesn’t just want his sheep to be profitable, he wants them to be famous, KOB News reports. When the Spaniard Francisco Vázquez de Coronado made his two-year journey from Mexico to Kansas inRead More →
Low cost, low cost flock operation was the driving force behind Marc Jones’ decision to switch from lambing inside Texel crosses to lambing Lleyn ewes outside. Traditionally Mr Jones, who farms in partnership with his father David and mother Jane at Trefnant Hall Farm on the estate in Powis, Wales,Read More →
Federal researchers are tasked with safeguarding the genetic material of plants and animals on which the country’s food supply depends. Two ranchers from the hills of western Colorado join us in trying to secure the future of the rare Black Welsh Mountain sheep. It’s a sunny morning at Desert Weyr,Read More →
Credit Laura Palmisano / KVNFBlack Welsh Mountain sheep, a rare breed, graze at Desert Weyr, a farm near Paonia, Colo. Federal researchers are tasked with safeguarding the genetic material of plants and animals on which the country’s food supply depends. Two ranchers from the hills of western Colorado join usRead More →
Federal researchers are tasked with safeguarding the genetic material of plants and animals on which the country’s food supply depends. Two ranchers from the hills of western Colorado join us in trying to secure the future of the rare Black Welsh Mountain sheep. Laura Palmisano from KVNF visits the rareRead More →
Lameness is the plague of most sheep farmers. Aside from the time spent treating lame sheep, lameness also comes at a huge cost both in terms of the cost of chemicals / antibiotics to treat the disease and the lack of growth that lame sheep experience. A study conducted byRead More →