Home:News:News:Top Stories Top Stories Guardian of the flock Deborah Allard, Herald News Staff Reporter 05/07/2007 Email to a friendPost a CommentPrinter-friendly SWANSEA - Lola, Diana and Joey stood impatiently by the fence, their brown eyes searching the field, their tails wagging, an ear occasionally flickering and their mouths most certainly watering. Home:News:News:Top Stories Top Stories Guardian of the flock Deborah Allard, Herald News Staff Reporter 05/07/2007 Email to a friendPost...

More than 500 chickens of a poultry farm at Jibannagar died of bird flu Sunday night creating panic among the farm owners who are selling chickens at distressed price. Another report from Rajbari said about 2,000 poultry birds of a farm affected by the bird flue and domestic birds within 1km radius of Dhunchi Atash Collony in sadar upazil were culled on Sunday night. The farm official Ansar Ali claimed that the goats died in heat wave. Veterinary officer Dr Zillur Rahman on Monday visited...

A custodian found the goat chained to the principal's parking spot. Senior prank injures farm animals. A decision that may result in criminal charges and expulsion for the students involved. Police think the animals were stolen. MASSILLON -- A baby goat is recovering at Stump Hill farm after being the butt of a poorly executed joke. The goat, 14 chickens, and 4 pigeons were injured early Monday at Washington high school in Massillon. Play Video to see Jennifer Murphy's report.

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Instead of investing in large capital expenses, beginning farmers like Maxwell are looking at ways they can join the agriculture industry without the unmanageable debt load. Getting the next generation of farmers to buy into new business practices on the farm is a job Dick Cates thrives on as the director of UW-Madison's Wisconsin School for Beginning Dairy and Livestock Farmers, a program in the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems. Young folks in particular don't have the credit...

Matching that standard has been a perennial problem for the UK sheep industry. The latest figures reveal that in the January to March period New Zealand increased its exports by an astonishing 27 per cent to a total of 106,000 tonnes. A project jointly funded by Quality Meat Scotland (QMS), the English Beef and Lamb Executive, Meat Promotion Wales and the Livestock and Meat Commission of Northern Ireland, under the management of the Meat and Livestock Commission (MLC), points to the new...