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Understanding the basics of animal behavior can help reduce the stress that can accompany animal handling.

Past Penn State 4-H Educator, Bob Brown, reviews and emphasizes the importance of weighing in your lambs and kids.

When winter and cold weather arrive, goats and sheep spend more time indoors. With this change in management comes needed attention to airflow and adequate ventilation of animal housing.

The spread of multiflora rose in Pennsylvania caused it to be designated as a noxious weed. Multiflora rose can be controlled but it takes considerable effort.

Patience and timing will help you maximize the value of manure applied this spring.

Producers should test forages to balance diets that promote good performance from their flock or herd.

Accurately estimating bale weights helps producers better plan for winter feeding needs and fertilizer applications to hay fields.

Overview of the benefits of incorporating a coccidiostat into the creep feed of lambs and kids to increase performance and prevent clinical disease.

Whether you raise pigs, sheep, goats, or cattle, having an emergency plan for their care is critical for animal welfare and business continuity.

Producers should test forages in order to correctly balance rations to meet sheep nutritional requirements.

Pricing meat for direct-to-consumer sales.

Engage with your local livestock educator at a quarterly gathering where small ruminant producers discuss nutrition, feed labels, and relevant industry topics.

Improper handling techniques can cause frozen semen and embryos to decrease in quality. This article can help educate producers on handling frozen reproductive material.

Silvopasture is the integration of trees, livestock, and forage crops together on the same land to create dual income from timber and livestock.

Meat quality begins at the farm level, where a producer's care for the animals plays a crucial role in determining the quality of the meat.

Testing stored forages for nutritional quality is an important management consideration in livestock nutrition. Sampling bales involves a few simple steps to get a representative sample.

Unlock the power of livestock records—learn to track, analyze, and use production data to make smarter management decisions and grow your operation.

Explore the basics of AI and embryo transfer to boost genetic improvement, productivity, and herd health in this webinar for sheep and goat producers.

Provides the credentials to meet FDA requirements for development and implementation of a preventive system for food safety as stated within the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) regulations.

Learn how to evaluate ewes and does through performance and visual traits in this webinar focused on selection and culling strategies to boost flock and herd productivity.

Weather can be extremely challenging when it comes to timely manure application. The following principles should be considered when making plans for your next weather-delayed application.

Sam Watson joined the Meat Science Faculty in Penn State's Department of Animal Science.

Many farm people have never stopped and actually analyzed why animals behave as they do and, more importantly, what this behavior may mean to their own personal safety.

SRLV harms sheep and goats by causing mastitis, low milk yield, young mortality, and early culling. Testing, biosecurity, and genetics can boost herd health, performance, and longevity.

Poison-ivy (Toxicodendron radicans) is a native woody, perennial vine.