Find the best farm animals for beginners among heritage livestock breeds. Pick a pig, get a goat, decide on a donkey, and ...

Chip is SVF's official mascot and is a rare Tennessee Myotonic (fainting) goat born from a frozen embryo. Courtesy SVF Lead herdsman Nick Bowley during a previous Visitors Day sheep shearing ...

Nearly one in five of the world’s farm animal breeds are at risk of extinction1. The reason? They’re underemployed. For thousands of years, farmers have carefully bred and raised diverse animals ...

Learn about methods for breeding heritage chickens to achieve a hardy and productive flock designed for the modern homesteader. Many of us who keep backyard flocks are aware that industrial chicken ...

Native Shorthorn purebred cattle graze in a pasture at Joe Schallberger’s Whispering Hills Farm near Perrydale, Ore. Schallberger and his wife, Sue, are both retired veterinarians who specialize in ...

A colorful assortment of heritage livestock breeds are the latest American symbols to be immortalized on U.S. Postal Service stamps. The Heritage Breeds Forever stamps, which highlight 10 rare animals ...

Long before a Thanksgiving turkey reaches your table, farmers are hard at work feeding the birds, monitoring their health and guiding them from hatch to harvest.

The Pete Davis Gate, shown on Thursday, June 2, 2022, is the main entry point into the Eastern Oregon Livestock Show Grounds in Union. UNION — Awards and recognition are nothing new for the Eastern ...