Livestock

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- A pioneering partnership has been forged to bolster the science guiding resource management and public lands stewardship along the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.

One of the West's most enduring symbols is fading like a red-hot branding iron cools to ashen gray.

With concerns over disease and global trade trumping tradition, federal regulators want ranchers to swap the old-fashioned cattle brand for electronic ear tags to quickly and reliably identify livestock.

SYRACUSE -- If "Livestock Jeopardy" becomes a television game show, four Davis County teens could clean up as contestants.

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Black as night and 18 hands high, Clemente trotted up and down the pen as the auctioneer at Mike's Livestock rattled off bids machine-gun style.

The barnyard scents of alfalfa, leather and sweat wafted through the cavernous auction hall just outside Riverside, Calif., where Clemente and dozens of other horses paraded before bleachers overflowing with bargain-seekers, sellers and gawkers on a cold weekend night.

There were whispers of a "killer buyer" lurking outside, buying up swaybacks and broken-down mares to be shipped off for slaughter. A trio of amateur Mexican-style rodeo riders eyed horses suitable for hogtying and tail twisting.

PLAIN CITY -- Changes to the livestock and fowl ordinance make owning birds less restrictive than it has been in the past.

HUNTSVILLE -- The sheep may be taller, outweigh and outnumber the border collies, but don't tell the border collies.

One border collie after another scampered across 12 acres at Kelley Creek Farm Saturday, each herding four head of sheep through panels to see who was top dog.

SALT LAKE CITY -- A committee has approved an animal-cruelty bill that would allow the humane killing of an animal that threatens a person, property or livestock.