The Greeley Tribune

Family farm in western Weld breeds big business with miniature cattle

The Jessen family’s farm is different from its western Weld County neighbors. The rarest animals on their farm are not the marsupials – a red kangaroo and a wallaby – they keep in a pen in their yard, ...
Fairfax Times

Milking their famous heritage: Rare cattle breed has easy life at Mt. Vernon

Ben and Buck have sweet gigs as far as jobs for oxen go. The two 15-month-old mahogany-colored, horned bovines–of the rare American Milking Devon breed–wear a yoke and pull a small wagon for about one ...
The Boston Globe

Hamilton is thought to be the first Baudet du Poitou in the US successfully bred with artificial insemination.

BROWNINGTON, Vt. — Hamilton the donkey was born during a nighttime storm on July 9 and within hours was more dead than alive. Just another barnyard calamity. Except much was riding on the little ...
upnorthlive

Mini cow's arrival makes big impression at Leelanau farm

LEELANAU COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) --Walk around Rick Robbins’ Leelanau County yard and you'll see all kinds of unexpected things. Roaming around his fenced-in, small pasture are chickens, mini ...
The Middletown Press

2 shoreline ‘residents’ immortalized on Forever Stamps, and it’s not who you’d expect

Two local residents have been immortalized with their portraits printed on newly-released “forever” postage stamps. And they are not who you might expect. The U.S. Postal Service has made a local ...