Have you ever wondered why we ended up with the livestock animals we have? Someone, somewere, selected whic...  ...ears ago. Those 80 Iranian cows were no ordinary livestock : They were aurochs, giant now-extinct cattle tha...

When you think of an animal advocacy group trying...  ...to switch to using cage-free methods of producing livestock . For the past 10 years, the Humane Society of...

Over the past few days, several seemingly unrelate...  ...Then we learned about how reindeer are raised as livestock in Lapland. Then I also read an article about how...  ..., tasty, and growing in popularity, so the cervid livestock industry is small, but booming.LedgEnd Farm in Mi...

(Video Link)These days, there are plenty of cat and dog cafes in Japan. I've even heard of one with lizards and turtles for those who want some cold-blooded company. But Japanese business owner Rena Kawaguchi is taking t...

Photographer Rob MacInnis takes portraits of b...  ...rnyard animals. He takes easily as much care with livestock photographs as a fashion photographer would with...

Imagine trying to prosecute someone who could only respond with oinks and grunts. Believe it or not, trials of this type did happen many times in the middle ages and continue to take place in non-Westernized countries. M...

Darren Bryant scanned a catalog called Stromberg's Chicks & Pets Unlimited 1972, from which you could order chickens, dogs, skunks, raccoons, monkeys, anteaters, chinchillas, minks, owls, and even an ocelot! The...

Robert Sosebee of Austell, Georgia came home to fi...  ...ame home to find he had been ticketed for keeping livestock in the city. But he doesn't own any chickens, exc...

We've addressed the problem of the methane from livestock farts and burps contributing to global warming. O...  ...castle University say that adding curry spices to livestock feed could produce the same results. Research ha...

With livestock farmers on both sides of the family, I thought al...