EVERY parent wants the best for their children, particularly in the first two years of a child’s life, when optimal nutrition is key in ensuring healthy growth and improving cognitive development.

AgResearch senior scientist Dr Linda Samuelsson says results of the trial to test the benefits of sheep milk for human consumption should be available next year. In what is believed to be a world ...

Sheep's milk is easy to digest due to the fat and protein components and is rich in nutrients including vitamins A, B and E, potassium, magnesium, folic acid, and zinc. . Photo: SUPPLIED / ...

Sheep's milk has a higher content of essential vitamins and minerals than cow's milk and could be used to cater to consumers' appetite for healthy products. But presently it seems only small-time ...

Although the concept of sheep-milk ice cream may sound foreign to most of us, Faculty of Agriculture student Erica Sullivan and alumnus Meghan Spares spent their summer discovering an appetite for ...

A rapidly growing market for sheep’s milk products could mean there are opportunities for more producers to begin sheep milking enterprises, but its not as easy as it looks Milking sheep is more like ...

A comparison between cow and sheep milk indicated that sheep milk had more protein and fatty acids. File photo / RNZ - Nathan McKinnon It is official - the health benefits of New Zealand sheep milk ...

Spring Sheep Milk Co. had its annual Farm Open Day on Friday. It’s the first time the event has been held in Taranaki. Photo: Vanessa Laurie / Stuff The question shouldn’t be how do you milk a sheep ...

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers used sheep, a ruminant mammal, to obtain polyclonal immunoglobulins (IgGs) against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ...

Montana milk doesn’t always come from cows. At KJ’n Ranch, sheep are milked twice a day to produce the smooth and creamy lactose-free beverage. Jim and Kim Ashmore, owners of KJ’n Ranch, have been in ...