Defra, and the Welsh and Scottish governments and Northern Ireland Executive have published proposals to reform the rules for ...

D’amour Ntirenganya is an ardent Smart Harvest reader from Rwanda. I met him during a recent visit to Netherlands for an agricultural forum and we interacted briefly. As we got acquainted, D’amour ...

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 ...

Young bucks are castrated and docked in preparation for the coming summer. In this clip from "Sweetgrass," bucks are castrated, their tails are cut (docked), and the ends of their ears are cut to ...

Docking the tail of lambs is a standard husbandry procedure and is achieved through several techniques including clamps, hot or cold knives and latex rings, the last of which is the most popular. All ...

Longer tails have long given sheep producers across the globe problems, but a research project spearheaded by Washington State University graduate student Brietta Latham could eliminate the trait.

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 ...