Sarah Adcock’s Animal Welfare Lab looks into alternatives to painful farm animal procedures like the tail docking of lambs.

Guy Hodnett admitted two offences relating to causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal at Llandrindod Wells Magistrates’ Court ...

A Powys farmer has admitted causing unnecessary suffering to more than 80 sheep after illegally tail docking the animals ...

A Powys farmer has admitted causing unnecessary suffering to 80 sheep and failing to provide them with sufficient levels of ...

CHEYENNE - A Wyoming State Fair regulation prohibiting extreme tail docking by youth who exhibit lambs was not put on the rule books at the Wyoming Secretary of State's Office and is therefore illegal ...

Guy Hodnett, of Brook House, Knighton, appeared before Llandrindod Wells Magistrates’ Court this week, where he was ordered to pay more than £2,500 in fines, after pleading guilty to two offences ...

DEFRA’S consultation on castration and tail docking methods should be engaged with by the sheep industry, so policy makers ...

Despite the first WSF rule set in 2001 mandating tails at least three tail bones in length, some breeders continued to cut them short. In 2003, about 40 lambs were culled from market competition at ...

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Sheep farmers risk having future on-farm practices shaped without them unless they engage with Defra’s review of castration and tail docking.

DOUGLAS — Dozens of lambs — some of them award winners — were disqualified from competition at the Wyoming State Fair because their tails were cut too short, drawing criticism from both children who ...