Thursday, April 25, 2024

Tag: farms

The high baaas – gymnastic sheep use Highland cow as climbing frame

A HIGHLAND bull has found itself being used by cheeky sheep - as a climbing frame. Somerled, who weighs almost a tonne and possesses a...

Sheep mutilated and killed in senseless attacks on three different farms

SHOCKING pictures have shown the devastating aftermath of attacks carried out on sheep in which their ears were cut off.   A number of sheep have...

Scots farmers face pesticide crackdown after birds of prey killed by rat poison

SCOTTISH farmers are facing a crackdown on pesticides after it emerged birds of prey are being killed by rat poison. Scientists from government agency...

60% of all workplace deaths in agriculture industry

ALMOST two thirds of Scots killed at work last year worked in agriculture, analysis of figures published earlier this year by the Health and...

Campaigners flock to Scottish Parliament over EU electronic sheep-tagging plan

By Oliver Farrimond PROTESTORS drove a flock of sheep to the Scottish Parliament to complain about new EWE-ropean Union plans to fleece Scottish farmers with...

Sheep in Scotland still contain Chernobyl radiation

By Cara Sulieman SHEEP in Scotland still carry traces of radiation from Chernobyl - over 20 years since the catastrophic explosion. A huge cloud of radioactivity...

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