FARGO - Shepherds have some simple ways to capitalize on one of the best lamb and wool markets the American sheep industry has seen. One of them is shearing sheep. It can have tremendous impacts on ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Sheep and goat producers of any expertise level are invited to learn more about the critical production phases of late gestation, lactation and care of newborns at Purdue ...

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 ...

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 ...

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," ...

Jon Beastrom has been raising sheep for over 15 years on his operation in Pierre, South Dakota. Now, there are around 1,900 sheep on the farm.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Sheep and goat producers can brush up on lambing and kidding protocol and reducing newborn losses in time for the spring lambing season at a Purdue Extension workshop Feb. 24.

ELKTON, S.D. - Spring lambing in 2017 has been a shepherd’s paradise, at least where the weather is concerned. While the first few weeks of January were frigid, Mother Nature has smiled on South ...

Why pre-lambing vaccination matters?