Jackie Brown says it was beyond a dream come true to lead an Ayrshire cow one more time in Stranraer.

The Ayrshire is the native dairy cow of Scotland and the successful survivor of several types that were still present in the early nineteenth century in the Scottish Lowlands. By the mid-1600s in the ...

Dung beetles are quietly performing a vital climate change mitigation service for Australia's livestock sector, slashing ...

Healthy fine-looking Aryshire heifers grazing quietly welcome you when you visit Eldoret National Polytechnic's expansive dairy unit. State-of-the-art housing, milking and breeding technology would ...

MSc Katri Sarviaho explored the impact of genomic selection on the genomic architecture of the Finnish Ayrshire dairy cattle breed in her doctoral dissertation. Genomic selection was introduced in ...

A new weeks-old calf is now trotting around the Calf Yard in the Northwestern Mutual Family Farm at the Milwaukee County Zoo. Mabel was born July 28 around 1 a.m. to mother Phoebe. The heifer (female) ...

Weir Farms is more than a traditional dairy farm: it’s a family-run business adding real value to milk produced by their Ayrshire-cross cows. From their herd of 190 cows, they sell fresh and flavoured ...

THE critical genetic study of a character such as that of milk production in cattle, which is highly subject to environmental influences, cannot be carried out effectively until a fairly comprehensive ...

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