Specialty Livestock

Lists alternative crop and livestock species and related enterprises with links to Extension sources that help evaluate and start non-conventional farming enterprises.

Information about heritage and threatened livestock breeds of asses, cattle, goats, horses, sheep, pigs, rabbits, chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys. Formerly named the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy (ALBA).

Provides production, management and marketing information about exotic livestock, including bison, elk and red deer; sheep and goats; and other alternatives to conventional livestock: beekeeping, earthworm farming, aquaculture, raising rabbits, and swine production.

Web links to information about alternative livestock species including bison, camelids, deer and elk, fur-bearing animals, gamebirds, rabbits, ratites and wild boar.

Information about animal disease trends and issues, including chronic wasting disease, as they relate to game animal production.