Skip to main contentSkip to navigation
Print subscriptions
Sign in
Search jobs
Search
The Guardian - Back to homeThe Guardian

Farm animals

October 2023

  • Richard Young, Sustainable Food Trust

    Richard Young obituary

    Farmer who combined campaigning on antibiotics and sustainability with a deep love of animals and literature
  • Free-range laying hens on a British farm.

    World’s first flu-resistant chickens could pave way for gene-edited UK poultry

    Research shows birds with small alterations to one gene are highly resistant to avian flu
  • An aerial view shows deforestation near a forest on the border between Amazonia and Cerrado in Nova Xavantina, Mato Grosso state, Brazil

    Animals farmed
    Top grain traders ‘helped scupper’ ban on soya from deforested land

    Cargill and ADM led push to weaken new protections for threatened ecosystems in South America, report says

September 2023

  • A very cute, healthy, pink adult pig with wide pointed ears, standing next to another cute adult pig, looks out at the camera over a low wire, appearing to be outdoors somewhere.

    Our unequal earth
    From cage-free chicks to puppy mills and Avian flu: Republicans are trying to roll back animal protections

  • A man in rubber fishing overalls and gloves holds a big salmon next to a net at a lake

    ‘Monstrous’ sea lice and jellyfish invasions blighting Scottish salmon farms

July 2023

  • Record-breaking Australian Angus stud Texas Thunderstruck with his seller Ben Mayne and new owner Robert Mackenzie.

    The rural network
    No bull: Australian Angus stud sells for record $360,000 at auction

  • Black and white milk cows lay on the grass at Millview farm in County Down, Northern Ireland on 27 May 2023

    Northern Ireland could lose half its veterinary medicines in Brexit row

  • A female mountain lion and two kittens walk down a game trail in Oakhurst, CA.

    To catch a predator: the wildlife detective helping ranchers and mountain lions coexist

  • Royal Highland Show 2023<br>Suffolk sheep are judged at the Royal Highland Centre in Ingliston, Edinburgh, on day one of the Royal Highland Show. Picture date: Thursday June 22, 2023. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

    Agricultural shows boom across the UK as record crowds flock to the fields

June 2023

  • Protests in support of the kept animals bill in London earlier this month.

    Tory MPs expected to back Labour plans to reintroduce animal welfare bill

  • Sheep in Wales

    The pet I'll never forget
    The pet I’ll never forget: Blossom the sheep was struggling to give birth – and the vet wanted my help

May 2023

  • A protest outside the high court in London earlier this month.

    Animal welfare groups lose court challenge over ‘Frankenchickens’

  • Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

    I’ve campaigned for decades against the horrific lives factory-farmed chickens lead – but now there’s hope

    Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
  • ‘Dark, rich, sticky, maybe even chocolatey’ … the texture of luxury compost.

    £20 for a tiny bag of poo?! What really goes into luxury compost

  • To match Insight CATTLE-MIGRATION/<br>A cow and her calf stand in dead grassland on the Swenson Ranch outside Stamford, Texas, in this file photo taken May 21, 2011. For more than a century, through a dozen dry spells when lakes disappeared and the land died, thousands of cows from the Swenson Land &amp; Cattle Co have roamed the fields of Texas. Yet the drought currently ravaging the southern Plains has done what the Dust Bowl could not: chased them off this land and driven them more than 600 miles (970 km) north to Nebraska. To match Insight CATTLE-MIGRATION/ REUTERS/Daniel Wallis/Files (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT ANIMALS)

    Who is behind a string of grisly cow deaths in Texas?

  • Country diary
    Country diary: Lambing is a physical business

  • The rural network
    From sheep duffing to cattle rustling, how big a problem is livestock theft in Australia?

    Gabrielle Chan

  • ‘It’s absolutely dire’: why UK chicken farmers want to call it a day

April 2023

  • Wild birds, including bald eagles, have been stricken by a more lethal strain avian influenza.

    Current avian flu strain deadlier than in past and could become endemic, study says

  • How to judge a prize-winning guinea pig – video

About 448 results for Farm animals
1...345...
Explore more on these topics