Category Livestock

Thousands of cattle dead due to flooding in North West England, UK

More than 2,000 farm animals are now believed to have drowned in this month’s floods which engulfed north-west England.   The Fallen Stock Company, which provides a nationwide service for the collection and disposal of deadstock, said it believed 2,000…

Severe Drought Threatens Growth as Cattle Die, Crops Fail In Ethiopia

Saado Osman straps two bulging sacks of United Nations wheat to her donkey, one of the few animals the 70-year-old eastern Ethiopian herder has left since the rains stopped.   Like millions of others in the Horn of Africa nation…