Dealing with sheep scab – part 1
Sheep scab occurs in all provinces, and is a very serious disease that, if left untreated, can infect your whole herd and lead to stock deaths.
Better shearing
Merino wool is usually shorn when it has a good length, after 8 to 12 months of growth.
Check the condition of your herd
Over-fat cows can have problems with conception and at calving.
The difference between vaccination and treatment
Vaccines and treatment drugs can both be injected, but the two are not the same.
Estimating cattle age
You can make a good guess at the age of cattle by looking at their teeth.
When the bite is worse than the bark
The symptoms, prevention and treatment of the killer disease rabies.
Identifying the predator
Accurate identification of the damage-causing animal (DCA) preying on your livestock is critical to a predator management strategy.
Keep your broilers cool
Follow these tips provided by the Livestock Research and Innovation Institute of the Limpopo Department of Agriculture to reduce the effect of summer’s high temperatures on broiler houses.
Step 3 – How to protect the land
Monitor overhead cables and other potentially dangerous structures.
Check those fences
Goats are natural roamers – they don’t like being fenced in.
Grasses, grazers and grazing
If you’re changing from cash crops to livestock farming, you will have to get your veld management right, cautions Roelof Bezuidenhout.
Keep stock thieves away
Stock theft and predation is widespread in the livestock industry and losses could be higher than we think.
