On a farm in the southern US state of Virginia, David Ayares and his research teams are breeding genetically modified pigs to transplant their organs into human patients. Dave Ayares, President ...

Advances in selective breeding and artificial insemination have fuelled the global spread of a small number of profitable ...

Breeds with floppy ‘lop’ ears ... with the Government’s animal health agency and all movements of pigs on and off farms or smallholdings have to be recorded. Click here for more information.

Maisy gave birth to eight adorable Kunekunes on Wednesday morning (Image: Everlong Farm) A Kunekune pig is a small breed of ...

It took thousands of years to develop the world's extraordinary range of domesticated farm animals ... bird flu and African swine fever. If we rely on just a few breeds, we risk a wipe out.