Farmers in rural areas believe that they will make more money through livestock rearing by simply shifting from low-producing indigenous breeds to exotic ones. This however, has not worked very well ...

Tony Leis just couldn’t leave well enough alone. The Wichita farmer started dabbling with buffalo breeding 25 years ago and soon was crossing them with various types of cattle, with some interesting ...

The concept of cattle breeds, rather than local types, is said to have originated in Britain under the influence of Robert Bakewell in the 18th century (Porter, 1991). It was during that period that ...

Dexter cattle, even bulls such as this one, are easy to handle and cheap to feed. Two Dexters can be bred at different times to produce a year-round supply of milk for about as much money and care as ...

In the 50 years following the end of the Civil War, nearly six million longhorn cattle were herded north out of Texas. In the 1880s, Montana cattlemen brought in hundreds of thousands of these Texas ...

China has successfully cloned both Zhangmu cattle and Apeijiaza cattle, two endangered breeds found in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, scientists announced Monday. Four male calves of each ...

Every year, millions of cattle die of trypanosomosis -- among the ten diseases of cattle with the greatest impact on the poor. In Africa the disease is known as "Nagana", which translates literally as ...