Half a century ago, family farms were prevalent. Animals grazed on pasture, breathing fresh air, and feeling sunshine on their backs. During inclement weather, they were sheltered in straw-bedded ...

AWI prepares reports on the history and current status of laws that affect the welfare of farm animals. The content of each paper is kept updated, and all of the reports are available as a ...

find more here or extending her animal baby knowledge beyond the farm (hares have leverets, don’t you know?) 10. Horses wear shoes Sounds weird when you read it like that, doesn’t it? And lots of ...

As Hurricane Milton was fast-approaching, Sara Weldon and her husband, Rick Bass, made a decision: They would not leave their animals. The couple — who live on a small farm in Clermont ...

Development of transgenic farm animals will allow more flexibility in direct genetic manipulation of livestock. Gene transfer is a relatively rapid way of altering the genome of domestic livestock.

It is the story of a revolution on a farm and imagines what would happen if animals were in charge, rather than humans. The author, George Orwell, published Animal Farm in 1945. He was inspired by ...

Animal science majors study a range of life sciences to better understand animal breeding, behavior, physiology and management among various species, including pets, farm animals and exotic animals.

Octopuses - and other invertebrate cephalopods - are considered as sentient beings, but EU law covering farm animal welfare is only applied to vertebrates - creatures that have backbones.

The characters in Animal Farm can be split into three groups - the humans, the pigs and the other animals. The humans are the villains, thoughtless and neglectful. The pigs are scheming ...

"I alternate between feeling calm and then crying over my animals," says Florida farm owner Sara Weldon Virginia Chamlee is a Politics Writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE for three years.

saying they needed to remain behind to keep tabs on their dozens of farm animals. Cash the donkey nuzzled on the floor of the couple’s bedroom after the home lost power in the early hours of ...