53 h. ago Liz Fletcher unveils exciting new project as she takes 'time out' from farming

Fletchers' Family Farm star Liz Fletcher is fronting new ITV1 Christmas special

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54 h. ago Liz Fletcher takes 'time out' from farming as she reveals exciting new project

Fletchers' Family Farm star Liz Fletcher is fronting a new festive special on ITV1.

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1 week ago Just not that into ewes: ‘gay sheep’ escape slaughter and take over a New York catwalk

Designer Michael Schmidt’s 36-piece collection was made from the wool of rams who have shown same-sex attractionWhen a ram tips its head back, curls its upper lip, and takes a deep breath – what is known in the world of animal husbandry as a “flehmen response” – it is often a sign of arousal. Sheep have a small sensory organ located above the roof of the mouth, and the flehmen response helps to flood it with any sex pheromones wafting about.Usually, rams flehmen when they encounter ewes during the mating period, according to Michael Stücke, a farmer with 30 years of experience raising sheep in Westphalia, Germany. But on Stücke’s farm, the rams flehmen “all the time”. Continue reading...

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1 week ago California activist gets jail time for taking chickens from Perdue Farms plant

A California animal welfare activist who took four chickens from a major Perdue Farms poultry plant has been sentenced to 90 days in jail

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3 w. ago Kelvin Fletcher and wife Liz unveil huge next step for family farm

ITV's Fletchers' Family Farm captures the life of former Emmerdale star Kelvin and his wife and children in the Peak District

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4 w. ago Erskine city farm on brink of closure amid winter funding crisis

Volunteers are fighting to keep the doors of the first city farm in Scotland open after donations hit an 'all-time low'.

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