AVMA News

MARCH 4, 2024

Cyanide bombs are used to kill predator species that prey on livestock, but the devices unintentionally kill thousands of animals each year. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is taking steps to stop the use of M-44 devices that deliver sodium cyanide on public land.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 31, 2010

This looks like its for farming of livestock, not medical research, but that's bad too. 28 his intentions to build such a facility in the state during the Livestock Biotech Summit at the Sioux Falls Convention Center. Tags: livestock agriculture. Research on animals is research on animals. From the High Plains Journal.

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Critter News

JULY 22, 2011

THE DUTCH parliament has voted overwhelmingly to ban the ritual slaughter of livestock. It could have a snowball effect for other countries in Europe, although probably it certainly won't be seen as politically correct. Excerpted from the Irish Times.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2021

For the fifth year in a row, I was assigned the prolific and well-known Aripo Livestock Station at the foothills of Trinidad’s Northern Range. For birders who have visited T&T in the past, the livestock station has always been a staple site for several key species that would be fairly difficult elsewhere.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Visitors to T&T may be familiar with the area – the famed Aripo Livestock Station. Access is restricted, and the livestock referred to are highly temperamental water buffalo. Our jaunt for the CBC of 2015 turned out to be the first of many, as I have been assigned that area each count since then.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2024

We saw several, but unfortunately, the ones that let me take photos were feeding in a livestock paddock. The Rusty Sparrow is a large sparrow that can only be found from western Mexico to northern Central America. Several Black-chinned Sparrows sang from different perches, making this site a special one, indeed.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2024

But once I get back home to Mexico, I will be climbing hills on livestock trails once again. In between now and then, I will spend a week and a half in California, in the land where birding may mean walking on paved paths, or even on a wooden boardwalk built through the middle of a salt marsh.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Well, we Bronx boys are naturally suspcious of livestock, for reasons I still don’t understand. This bubble of contentment must have dulled my typically sharp urban wariness, because I thought nothing of the teenager traveling up the path with an untethered cow. Who worries about a cow, right?

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Critter News

DECEMBER 9, 2010

The purpose is to make them happier as livestock. A team based at the CSIRO aims to use the study to reduce stress and pain in livestock. A team based at the CSIRO aims to use the study to reduce stress and pain in livestock. The research is being funded by Meat and Livestock Australia. Go here for the full article.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2022

Shrikes were practicing their own form of butchery – that is, their particular practice of impaling their kills from thorns and barbed wire for later eating – long before we began domesticating and slaughtering livestock on our own.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2020

Farmers keep their livestock in this wetland also. Arriving before sunrise, we could already see the thick clouds on the horizon. Scores of Black-bellied Whistling Ducks circled overhead, these vocal ducks are often hunted illegally here so it was refreshing to see so many.

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Critter News

MAY 18, 2009

It's their way of acknowledging the impact of livestock on the environment. Not only is there reason to believe that livestock contribute to greenhouse gases, but meat is resource-intensive to produce. Tags: climate global warming europe methane livestock vegetarian.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2012

The lush pastures of the Aripo Livestock Station sustained herds of happy Buffalypso , a special breed of T&T beef cattle named for their Water Buffalo heritage and Calypso-happy country. Where we entered the area, the savannah seemed more like Aripo Ranch. In fact, it was.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

They feed from grain storage and spillage areas, livestock yards, and bird feeders. In North America and the Caribbean, they are found mostly in suburban, urban, and agricultural areas where grain, roost, and nest sites are available.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

” Given the vagaries of spring migration in our climate-changing world, perhaps this is the model that birders ought to adopt; but given how long it takes us as a community to decide whether that Ash-throated Flycatcher was a hybrid or what, we’d find out when to start our list for any given year about half a decade later.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Moreover, the pair I saw was feeding from a livestock trough alongside a group of cattle. According to the ABA, they are not countable. And when you see them – as I have recently – they have massive transmitters and color bands on their legs. Hardly the elegant, natural picture deserving of some seriously stunning birds!

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Critter News

JANUARY 24, 2012

Clearly a win for the damn livestock industry. A state law mandating "humane treatment" of downed livestock headed for the slaughterhouse was unanimously overturned Monday by the Supreme Court. It was a question of federal vs. state authority. And it was a unanimous decision. Read the full story at CNN.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

So, researchers looked at the habitat use of Blood Pheasants as related to the presence of livestock. One of the threats to the Blood Pheasant comes from overgrazing by cattle.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2012

Unusual abundances of food items, e.g. arboreal insects, garbage, livestock feed, etc. Generally invertebrates when available, fruits and berries, grains and certain seeds during other times of the year. are also exploited.” ” So, do we have a more robust and adaptable population of starlings in North America?

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Critter News

APRIL 13, 2009

By burping, belching and excreting copious amounts of methane — a greenhouse gas that traps 20 times more heat than carbon dioxide — India's livestock of roughly 485 million (including sheep and goats) contribute more to global warming than the vehicles they obstruct.

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Critter News

APRIL 18, 2009

Wolves have been killing livestock in Oregon, and now they want the authority to kill them.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2011

They’re all named for livestock. home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds , Terminology / Cow Birds Cow Birds By Rick • March 22, 2011 • 1 comment Tweet Share So what do Buffleheads and Bitterns and Hornbills have in common?

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 27, 2015

Not your typical veterinarian, he treats both wild and domestic animals, and when islanders need help with their pets and livestock, he’s the one they call. Scott Sims is one of Hawaii’s best-kept local secrets. people helping animals tv'

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2022

I’ve been leading a small but faithful group on Trinidad for several years to count birds within a livestock farm that is generally restricted to the public (you can read about some of those shenanigans here ); this was the first time I was to embark on a CBC on the smaller island of Tobago.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

It's that if you don't have the funds, and you don't have the feed, and don't have the place to keep them, and they are old, and they are no longer going to work for what you need them for, it's a place for them to go," said Billings Livestock and Horse Sale's Jenn Parker. A place for them to go? Maybe then can call it Horse Haven.

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Critter News

JANUARY 18, 2011

He also introduced LB 306, otherwise known as the Livestock Animal Welfare Act. Tyson Larson introduced LB 305 on Wednesday, which would create a state meat inspection program, which would in turn allow horse meat to be transported across state lines.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Scores of abandoned dogs, cats and livestock from Utah animal shelters become subjects of laboratory research at the University of Utah each year. Thanks to PETA's undercover investigation of University of Utah labs for bringing this issue to media attention. From the AP.

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Warrior Initiation” – By killing lions, Maasai warriors protect their livestock and officially become men.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2016

inhabitants per km², mainly livestock farmers. Draped in dense forests of black pine, beech, fir, spruce and Scot’s pine, this is one of the least populated areas of Greece, with merely 0.47 At the edge of the forest, above the road, a Roe Deer swiftly disappears between trees.

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JULY 5, 2016

It was placed on the Endangered Species List in 1973 , its populations dropping mostly due to hunting pressure from farmers who believe they kill livestock. Unfortunately, the range of the Andean Condor has decreased. Pesticide poisoning also remains a problem.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 14, 2008

Some huge livestock farms produce more raw waste than cities as large as Philadelphia or Houston. The US General Accountability Office (GAO) is not happy with the EPA. They've issued a report that throws a negative light on the EPA trying to ELIMINATE EVEN MORE REGULATION of factory farms. Deregulation is EVERYWHERE.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2011

The island was first a Maori fortress to be retreated to from the mainland, then a camp for internees during the war and a quarantine station for people and livestock. Somes, less interestingly, was a rich backer of the New Zealand Company called Joseph Somes (who never went near the place).

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 25, 2012

In this new series, we’ll travel with him across rural Michigan to care for every family pet and head of livestock in need of his expertise and kindness. Unflappable and unstoppable, this Doc routinely puts in 14-hour days and is a legend in the community. The Incredible Dr. Pol: Polnado Warning. SAT AUG 25 10PM ET.

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Critter News

AUGUST 15, 2010

The rising consumer preference for more “natural” and local products and concerns about pollution and antibiotic use in giant livestock operations are also driving change. The surprise truce in Ohio follows stronger limits imposed by California voters in 2008; there, extreme caging methods will be banned altogether by 2015.

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Critter News

APRIL 10, 2011

Despite last year’s agreement with agribusiness interests in Ohio to ban and phase out certain cruel factory farming practices, the Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board (OLCSB) voted in favor of veal crate confinement. Good news.although there had to be pressure exerted from advocates. From the Farm Sanctuary.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 6, 2008

The ag industry really fears that the government may start taxing them for heads of livestock because of their contribution to global warming. It would require farms or ranches with more than 25 dairy cows, 50 beef cattle or 200 hogs to pay an annual fee of about $175 for each dairy cow, $87.50 per head of beef cattle and $20 for each hog.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2017

This time of year, the cleanest of the effluent, or previously treated water is used to flood the nearby fields that livestock will later graze on. Each of them holds a very nice group of birds year round, and an increased number during the winter migration. This is where things start to get fun.

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