Tag: feedlot
Backgrounding calves for the feedlot
Estimated reading time: 6 minutesBackgrounding, according to Johannes Mulder, a beef cattle consultant at Intelact Beef, refers to a stage in the beef cattle...
Health standards in feedlots
Estimated reading time: 4 minutesMaintaining strict health standards at feedlots is vital in South Africa, particularly given the ongoing challenges facing the red meat...
Feedlots and FMD: The way forward
Estimated reading time: 7 minutesImplementing a comprehensive vaccination programme, rather than relying solely on biosecurity measures, can protect every feedlot.The foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) crisis...
Livestock farming is about farming with facts
Estimated reading time: 4 minutesFarmers and other role-players recently attended Octavoscene’s beef cattle and sheep information day at Boland Agricultural High School near Paarl...
Vertical gains in the lambing pen: It’s not just about the...
Estimated reading time: 6 minutesIt has become more important than ever for red meat producers to raise lambs that not only benefit the producer...
Don’t let acidosis affect your herd’s production
Estimated reading time: 7 minutesAcidosis can give rise to livestock mortalities and impair a ruminant’s production potential.Besides animal deaths, the condition can also lead...
Important biosecurity principles for disease prevention in a feedlot
Estimated reading time: 5 minutesThe effects of metabolic diseases can seriously damage the red meat industry.During quarantine periods all new animals are given a...
The Boran excels in a farm feedlot
Estimated reading time: 1 minuteFrancois Smit is one of the producers who has been trying to convince feedlots that discriminating against Boran weaners is...
Preventing respiratory diseases in the feedlot
Estimated reading time: 4 minutesRespiratory diseases are undoubtedly the number one cause of disease and death in feedlots.Cattle are especially susceptible to pneumonia.Administering antibiotics...
Balancing intensive lamb rearing in sheep feedlots
Estimated reading time: 5 minutesSheep feedlots represent a specialised and efficient system of raising weaner lambs for meat production in an intensive environment.Due...
