The Animal Production and Health Sub-Programme primarily address the challenges imposed by highly infectious animal diseases on livestock production in FAO and IAEA Member States (MS). Our goal is to ...

North Dakota State University researchers are working to identify a tool that producers can use to identify sheep or goats ...

Researchers at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) have taken part in a study of the effect of one molecule, 3-nitrooxypropanol, in inhibiting methane production in ruminants. The work has ...

This elevation has been attributed to the expansion in agricultural and industrial activities, including livestock farming, rice cultivation, mining of fossil fuels, reticulation of natural gas, and ...

Developmental programming has gained considerable attention in animal sciences because early conditions can shape how ...

Eating grass–sounds simple, right? But behind this everyday process lies a highly specialized system in many hoofed animals that is unique. Who would have thought that a cow or a deer needs four ...

Karen Beauchemin spends every day in her lab at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) in Alberta, Canada, working on cow feed. Boring, you say? Far from it. Beauchemin is part of an international ...

Ruminants evolved in diverse landscapes of which they utilized, by choice, a diverse arrangement of plants (grasses, forbs, and trees) for food. These plants provide them with both primary ...

A dazzling variety of head ornaments have evolved in animals such as sheep and cows, moose and elk, giraffes and pronghorn antelope. How this family of animals has developed such a wide variety of ...

Livestock farming is responsible for 18 percent of the world's greenhouse gases, and ruminants such as cattle, sheep and goats generate 35 percent of one of these gases -- methane, and according to ...