IN 1860, Charles Darwin encouraged cattle owners to maintain data on a special breed of cows living in Northumberland county, northern England. Little did he know that 151 years later these records, which included births and deaths, would provide evidence of how climate change is affecting breeding patterns in Chillingham …
Livestock is a very important component for profitable farming as most of the agricultural by-products can be used to feed them converting them into manure immediately. Other economical gains are in the form of wool, milk, egg, meat and skin. In India, very good draught animals like bullocks and he …
More than 200 buffaloes were killed on Thursday when a fire swept through wooden sheds at a farm in Cattle Colony in Landhi. According to eyewitnesses, the fire erupted at around 3.30pm when one of the farms in the colony caught fire from the smoldering dung cakes and straws burnt …
In a bid to check the increasing number of stray cattle on the Capital's roads, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi will now tag each animal with a microchip to facilitate easy tracking and keep a tab on their mortality. At a meeting of the MCD Standing Committee here on Wednesday, …
It represents half of the world's rainforest and is home to one-third of Earth's species, yet the Amazon has one of the highest rates of deforestation : a report.
