Some breeds of livestock on the critical list will be on show to visitors at Elders FarmFest for the first time this year.

But it's not just cows. Some breeds of pigs, like the Gloucestershire Old Spots, or sheep, like the Leicester Longwool, are threatened, too. Rare breeds of chickens and goats are also monitored.

Located on a 45-acre estate in Newport, SVF is the only organization in the country dedicated to conserving rare heritage livestock breeds by freezing their semen and embryos, a technique called ...

Grazing cattle have been used for the first time on airport-owned land in Ireland, as part of the initial phase of the ...

You might think it's a joke, but the truth is that they exist. Meet the Punganur cow, a rare and unique breed that originated from the Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh in southern India.

Ryan Perry started off feeding the pigs at his local city farm in Gateshead at the age of 7. They were Tamworth pigs, and from there his passion for rare breed livestock grew and grew. He bought the ...

She is affiliated with the Rare Breeds Trust of Australia and ... range of domesticated farm animals – an estimated 8,800 livestock breeds across 38 farmed species. But this diversity is ...

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