With their big eyes and soft fluffy fleece, it’s no wonder that lambs and sheep often appear in nursery rhymes and decorate children’s bedrooms. But did you know there are over 200 breeds of sheep out ...

A breed is a group of domestic animals with a uniform appearance, behavior, and other characteristics that distinguish it from other animals of the same species. Sheep fall into four broad categories: ...

Rebecca McLellan is trying to safeguard the future of a rare breed of sheep one scarf at a time. She fell in love with the Castlemilk Moorit and now has her own flock of 18 on the farm where she and ...

Deep in Erankau village some 6km from Sultan Hamud sits an impressive 400 hectare Dorper sheep sanctuary. The farm run by Mzee Paul ole Nagisikie and his brother, has been a learning centre for other ...

Unlike a goat or a horse, or any other livestock for that matter, sheep wool is much like human hair: it never stops growing (here’s what that looks like). While the main detriment for people with ...

LINDSBORG — When Matt Hemmer was a kid, he would help his dad with the cattle on their family farm in North Dakota. But when Hemmer turned 11, his dad sold the land and moved to Kansas to start a ...