Tag: animal nutrition

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Feeding broilers successfully depends on a few crucial factors of which water and management tops the list. Broilers must have...

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Sheep feedlots represent a specialised and efficient system of raising weaner lambs for meat production in an intensive environment....

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes The process of rearing livestock has certainly changed over the past few decades. Gone are the days when producers...

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Balanced trace mineral supplementation plays a key role in livestock nutritional plans and beef cattle health programmes. A deficiency...

Estimated reading time: 7 minutes Creep feed helps calves grow faster and heavier before weaning, leading to better marketability and potentially higher prices. Creep feed also...

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes Prof Jan Bonsma’s well-known saying, ‘To measure is to know’, is becoming more apt by the day in the case...

Estimated reading time: 7 minutes South Africa’s soils and pastures are generally phosphate deficient. Phosphate is essential for energy circulation and utilisation, and it plays...

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes The Animal Feed Manufacturers Association of South Africa (AFMA) is the official industry representative body of the South African...

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes This article discusses alternative byproducts to replace soya bean in pigs’ diets and their effects on growth performance and...

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Animals’ nutritional requirements vary continuously, and are directly related to the stage of production and quality of available roughage. The...