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 ...

WALTON, Ky. (WKRC) - There's unconditional love on a new miniature cattle farm. It's a local nonprofit giving people with special needs a way to learn about and bond with the animals. Traci Richardson ...

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.

Miniature cows, goats and donkeys and other mini animals are seeing a surge in popularity, according to animal breeders. Sales of small farm animals have grown since the COVID-19 pandemic, breeders ...