Australian farmers have more sheep than they can cope with and are culling livestock or giving them away for nothing, CNBC reported. Three years ago the number of sheep was at an 100-year low.

New Life In The Culling Fields. ... foot-and-mouth disease. The resulting cull claimed the Cumbrian farmer’s 2,000 sheep, ... Instead of watching his lambs grow fat, ...

High cull ewe values - on average £75 a head - should be an impetus for sheep farmers to eliminate poor performing ewes from the flock this season.

Once the sheep ages into “mutton territory” (older than 20 months), the meat can no longer be graded Prime, regardless of how streaked with fat it is. (See this graph from the USDA for a ...

When those fat stores drop, researchers think the sheep may be more susceptible to pneumonia. So they authorized 16 tags for hunters to take ewes this past fall in the Gros Ventre.

The pneumonia outbreak that killed more than 500 bighorn sheep across six western Montana populations since late 2009 has reached an important juncture. FWP says effort to cull bighorns with ...

Last month, a pneumonia outbreak within a small herd of bighorn sheep near Diamond Valley, Alta., led to a culling of the animals. According to the province, several of the dead sheep tested ...

Over the summer there is a lot of movement of sheep, either through culling ewes and rams in advance of next breeding season or drafting lambs for sale as ... Wednesday, 2 July 2025.

The president of a wildlife foundation meant to protect a vulnerable species of wildlife in Alberta is calling for stricter regulations after a herd of bighorn sheep contracted a deadly illness. Last ...