ALBC Pushes to Conserve Texas Longhorns
July 16, 2013Texas Longhorn cattle are among two new breeds added to the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy’s Conservation Priority List, while several others graduate from the program.
Texas Longhorn cattle are among two new breeds added to the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy’s Conservation Priority List, while several others graduate from the program.
The American Livestock Breeds Conservancy uses a $150,000 grant to support heritage-hog producers and encourage conservation.
In response to positive feedback about its dairy processing workshop, the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy releases a related workbook available online to all hobby farmers.
The American Livestock Breeds Conservancy begins its second year in a project to recover America’s second-oldest chicken breed.
Mom wrote an article about raising ultra-rare chickens that you will be able to read in the March/April 2011 issue of Hobby Farms. To do it she talked to Marjorie Bender of the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy, who told her all about the ethics of raising rare breeds.