The Nadji hails from Saudi Arabia and is a multi-purpose breed used for meat, milk, and wool. These animals are tall, hardy, and have long silky hair and drooping ears. They’re typically black, with ...

Researchers established the first comprehensive whole-genome sequencing atlas across five Egyptian sheep populations, linking ...

Guwahati: Assam’s ‘Asomi’ sheep has received national recognition from the Indian Council of Agricultural Research’s National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources (ICAR-NBAGR), making it the 11th ...

It took thousands of years to develop the world’s extraordinary range of domesticated farm animals – an estimated 8,800 livestock breeds across 38 farmed species. But this diversity is dwindling fast.

An uptick in demand for lamb meat is driving a resurgence in sheep numbers. AgweekTV's Jonathan Knutson talks with a North Dakota operation producing an all meat breed.

India has been identifying and registering all livestock breeds in the country, a process that could benefit the local meat industry with increased production and higher-quality meat, GlobalMeatNews ...

The Department of Sheep Husbandry, Kashmir, on Saturday distributed 46 genetically superior Texel male sheep among progressive sheep farmers at the Sheep Breeding Farm, Khimber, Srinagar, as part of ...

The Meatmaster is a modern South African breed of domestic sheep. It was bred in the early 1990s from various hair sheep breeds, with the goal of improving the meat characteristics of African ...

The marino breed that Kashmir adopted now for decades has a more feed-to-wool conversion than feed-to-mutton. Since wool is no longer a commercially viable produce as for as farming in Kashmir is ...

Not far from the minute town of Cochise (pop. 520), Brian LaPrairie’s Katahdin sheep rest comfortably in their pastures under the early morning sun. It’s still cool, but the sheep – raised for meat ...