The Department of Agriculture (DA) has approved the importation of additional goats and sheep in its bid to bolster the country’s livestock industry.  Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr.

Artificial insemination technology, currently used to improve breeds of cattle in the country, will now also be used for genetic improvemen.

Goats are also routinely subjected to painful dehorning and castration. On higher-welfare, pasture-based sheep farms, tail docking is prohibited and castration is only permitted when uncontrolled ...

The number of U.S. sheep and goats increased over the past year. The USDA says the sheep and lamb inventory was up slightly on the year, with gains in the breeding and market herds, ewes, and the lamb ...

AGRICULTURE Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. has approved the importation of breeder goats and sheep to improve the genetic ...

For the goats, the somatic cell DNA came from three ‘excellent breeding rams,’ and the egg ... the genetic material needed to produce a new sheep. Dolly was derived from an egg cell from ...

Department of Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. approved the importation of 1,520 breeder goats and 4,310 sheep ...

The 15 goats will join a herd of Soay sheep which are already grazing on ... contacted the zoo based on its experience of working with the breed before. Ms Forsyth said: "We currently have around ...