Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Farmer Alan Brady said tail docking is necessary to prevent disease [BBC] Farmers have raised concerns about the potential impact ...

Despite the first WSF rule set in 2001 mandating tails at least three tail bones in length, some breeders continued to cut them short. In 2003, about 40 lambs were culled from market competition at ...

DOUGLAS — Dozens of lambs — some of them award winners — were disqualified from competition at the Wyoming State Fair because their tails were cut too short, drawing criticism from both children who ...

DOUGLAS - To those unfamiliar with livestock competition, the length of a lamb's tail wouldn't seem to be an issue that would provoke controversy. But for some exhibitors at the Wyoming State Fair, it ...

CHEYENNE - A Wyoming State Fair regulation prohibiting extreme tail docking by youth who exhibit lambs was not put on the rule books at the Wyoming Secretary of State's Office and is therefore illegal ...

Farmers have raised concerns about the potential impact of proposed changes to lamb tail docking following a UK-wide consultation on the practice. Currently many lambs have their tails docked when ...