The H5N1 bird flu virus has been around for decades, and the damage it wreaks on chickens and other poultry is well documented. But the recent discovery that the virus has jumped into dairy cattle — ...

How a cattleman’s frustration with paperwork and a passion for innovation led to Herd Advisor — an app turning ranch talk ...

Cows have close companions that help them lower their stress levels, particularly in new or changing situations. Calves raised in pairs rather than on their own appear to show more positive growth and ...

From predicting lameness to estimating milk production months ahead, artificial intelligence is starting to change how dairy farms use their herd data.

Source: New World Library/with permission. Nonhuman animals (animals) can teach us many life lessons if we open our heads and hearts to who they are and what they know and feel. When I learned about ...

Cows are highly intelligent and deeply sentient and emotional beings with distinct individual personalities, and have been ...

BOULEVARD, Calif. — A small ranch owner in Boulevard wants you to reconsider everything you think you know about cows. In this Zevely Zone, I headed to the East County to take Cow 101. In celebration ...

Learn how researchers tested a cow’s behavior and what her tool use reveals about animal intelligence. Veronika the cow reaches down and picks up a brush with her mouth. Instead of using it in a ...

That’s the number seared in Prasert Auewarakul’s memory. It is the number of birds – mostly chickens – that were dead by the end of Thailand’s avian flu outbreak that started in late 2003. Some died ...