As spring season progresses, more livestock producers will be hosting various club lamb and show goat sales. As animals from different producers comingle for the first time at their new homes, the ...

Sheep producers need to monitor their flocks for soremouth, a highly contagious viral infection in sheep and humans, North Dakota State University Extension Service sheep specialist Reid Redden says.

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. A viral disease that causes unsightly mouth sores is suspected in bighorn sheep in Yellowstone ...

MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY – Sore mouth disease (also known as contagious ecthyma) is thought to be responsible for an illness observed among bighorn rams in Yellowstone National Park. Sore mouth disease ...

A MASS cull of all sheep and some cattle on the 100 sq mile Cooley peninsula was under way last night in a new crackdown to prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth disease. Just 24 hours after initial ...

A ban on pig, cattle and sheep imports to the UK from Germany has been triggered after a case of foot-and-mouth disease was confirmed. UK Ministers announced health certificates, which approve import ...

Victorian sheep farmers say they feel "scared" and "on edge" as concerns grow over an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease arriving in Australia. Victorian sheep farmers are warning of "catastrophic" ...

The NSW government has thrown its support behind the urgent development of mandatory electronic ID tags for millions of sheep and goats to ensure any outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) can be ...

Amid fear a breed of sheep could be culled to extinction in the 2001 foot and mouth outbreak, a group of farmers set up a sheep gene bank which is coming to fruition a decade on, as Tom Clarke writes.

Scuzzy was last seen playing near her home in Northumberland (Picture: Michelle Pouton/SWNS) Police have flocked to the scene of a Northumberland farm to help trace ‘Britain’s ugliest sheep’. Scuzzy, ...