The Jessen family’s farm is different from its western Weld County neighbors. The rarest animals on their farm are not the marsupials – a red kangaroo and a wallaby – they keep in a pen in their yard, ...

Rancher Ali Petersen, of Tekamah, Neb., helps a mini-Hereford calf take its first step eight hours after it was born. Tekamah, Neb.? Walking through their lowing herd of several hundred cattle, Ali ...

Do you feel that slight chill in the air? That can only mean one thing — Halloween is near. This is our absolute favorite holiday. And it seems like the good people over at Willow Rock Cattle in ...

PHOENIX - It's a small world at Rocking Robin Ranch in Prescott. The heart of the family farm is the dairy-cow herd, which are Mini Jerseys, about 3 feet high and unbearably cute. Miniature cattle, a ...

Michelle Bolt keeps a stuffed buffalo in her living room ”“ a whole one, not just a mounted head. A big buffalo can hit six feet in height and ten in length. An average buffalo weighs 2,000 pounds.

TEKAMAH, NEB. — Walking through their lowing herd of several hundred cattle, Ali and Kenny Petersen were like two Gullivers on a Lilliputian roundup. The half-sized cows barely reached Kenny’s waist.