Tag: Livestock
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New buildings debut as National Western Stock Show attractions
What used to be in the shadow of the 70-year-old Denver Coliseum is now one of the National Western Stock Show’s newest and largest attractions. Officially opening at the end of 2025 and debuting to the public during this year’s 120th year of the Stock Show, the area where the old stockyards once stood now…
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Denver slaughterhouse advocates oppose ballot measure, citing job losses and rising food costs
Animal rights activists argue slaughterhouses are inhumane, while employees defend operations
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National Western Stock Show hits top 10 in attendance and 2nd highest livestock sales in history
The 2024 National Western Stock Show rode off into the sunset Sunday after a 16-day run. It brought 671,467 visitors to Denver and sold $1,374,000 worth of livestock during the Junior Livestock Champions auction — the second-highest sale total in show history. The economic benefits to Denver and Colorado from the thousands of competitors and…
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PHOTOS: NWSS 2024 Grand Champion Auction
National Western Stock Show Junior Grand Champion livestock auction photos, Jan. 19, 2024
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What’s a zebu? All about the National Western Stock Show cattle breed
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The National Western Stock Show has a cure for your animal fix, from alpacas to zebus. Zebu who? asks you. Read zis, to learn about the world’s most adorable cow. The zebu is a flop-eared miniature ox that will steal your heart with one doe-eyed look. It is one of the many cattle breeds which…
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The chosen few: Judging and selecting winners at the National Western Stock Show
While the National Western Stock Show is a popular boot-scooting, cowboy swag market tourist event attracting more than 700,000 attendees in 2023, the real purpose of the show is livestock. And it is very serious business for livestock growers from all over the United States who come to the nation’s premier livestock event to show,…
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Western Livestock Journal owners win Friend of the National Western award
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The National Western Stock Show selected the Crow family as the winners of the 2024 Friend of the National Western Award due to their long history of contributions to the livestock industry — including the creation of the Western Livestock Journal (WLJ) and the Red Meat…
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‘Spit happens’: Colorado alpaca farm offers overnight stays, brings laughter, joy, healing
Kim Wesson likes to say alpacas found her. As she tends to her farm, baby alpacas — called crias — with their bony legs and large spirits, play with each other by frolicking and bumping necks. A sign reads, “Spit Happens” in front of fluffy white heads that bob up and down, gently reaching for…
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U.S. Forest Service criticized for not banning wolf hunting in Wyoming
The Center for Biological Diversity sent a letter Wednesday to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, and three other federal officials
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Colorado wolf importation hasn’t started yet, but one rancher feels he’s already at the epicenter
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The last known wolf in Colorado was killed in 1943, but now wolves have returned to Colorado through migration from Wyoming. In 2019 two lone wolves with radio collars were detected in the state. By 2021 a pack that included six wolf pups was confirmed…