Animals

Mycotoxins, which are present in most animal feed, can affect a poultry flock badly. It’s crucial to manage feed and the environment to lower mycotoxin levels.

With demand exceeding supply, working together and sharing information about tilapia farming will benefit us all.

Badly managed bulls are costing the national beef herd dearly, with disease and financial consequences that cattlemen will feel for years to come. Susan Botes investigates the re-emergence of STDs.

Kim Dyson remembers with fondness how, as a little girl, she made a warm bran mash for her horses when it was cold. But is this practice good for equines?

Introduction and summary of diseases and other conditions during August 2013.

South Africa’s only marine finfish farm on the Atlantic coastline has just entered the commercial market. Manager and shareholder of the Bluecap fish farm in Paternoster, Ingo Beckert, says fish farming is South Africa’s answer to protein provision for the future. Jay Ferreira reports.

Despite the harsh economic climate, the wallets came out when Johan and Mark King recently auctioned some of their racing pigeons, says Thomas Smit.

This all-too-common behaviour leads to poor condition, colic and stomach ulcers, cautions Dr Mac

Running horses in herds can lead to aggression and life-threatening injuries, cautions Dr Mac.

Do your pigeons always return after the others? Thomas Smit suggests some reasons for this.

A strict selection policy, in which only 50% of female piglets born are selected as F1 gilts, has gained the Leanside pig stud a reputation for superior genetics. It has also earned it the 2013 SA Studbook and Vleissentraal Elite Pig Stud award.

Feed costs are the largest single input in fish culture, accounting for approximately 40% of the sale price.