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'Find Your Happy': Dairy and Beef Barns Are Still a Mainstay at the Fair
'Find Your Happy': Dairy and Beef Barns Are Still a Mainstay at the Fair
'Find Your Happy': Dairy and Beef Barns Are Still a Mainstay at the Fair
If you know your history, you know fairs started as a way for folks to show off their crops, animals or crafts -- and that's still the backbone of most modern fairs. So with that in mind, here's a look at a fair mainstay: the cows in the dairy and beef barns at the Central Washington State Fair, which opened Friday (Sept...
University of Edinburgh Found Protection From East Coast  Fever
University of Edinburgh Found Protection From East Coast Fever
University of Edinburgh Found Protection From East Coast Fever
Researchers from the University of Edinburgh have found cows are protected from a parasite that causes a deadly disease - East Coast Fever - if they've previously been infected with a closely-related yet milder species of the parasite. After tracking 500 Kenyan calves from birth to age 1 - researchers found deaths caused by East Coast Fever dropped 89-percent among calves infected with other speci