Sarah Adcock’s Animal Welfare Lab looks into alternatives to painful farm animal procedures like the tail docking of lambs.

DEFRA’S consultation on castration and tail docking methods should be engaged with by the sheep industry, so policy makers ...

Sheep farmers risk having future on-farm practices shaped without them unless they engage with Defra’s review of castration and tail docking.

A Powys farmer has admitted causing unnecessary suffering to 80 sheep and failing to provide them with sufficient levels of ...

A Powys farmer has admitted causing unnecessary suffering to more than 80 sheep after illegally tail docking the animals ...

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Guy Hodnett, of Brook House, Knighton, appeared before Llandrindod Wells Magistrates’ Court this week, where he was ordered to pay more than £2,500 in fines, after pleading guilty to two offences ...

Longer tails have long given sheep producers across the globe problems, but a research project spearheaded by Washington State University graduate student Brietta Latham could eliminate the trait.

The primary objective of this study was to demonstrate the non-inferiority between lidocaine-impregnated ligation bands (LLBs) and control bands (CBs) with respect to the efficacy of castration and ...

Cut too close, and this docking can weaken sheep's rectal nerves and cause a prolapsed colon n a condition that automatically disqualifies them from the show ring. While prolapse can lead to death, ...