Posted by SLN Staff on Jan 9th, 2014 | Comments Off on New Year’s Resolution Animal Welfare & Farm Animal Care All Year Long
No matter how technically advanced or modern we get, our lives will always depend a whole lot on the environment, agriculture and farm animals. The animal products that we get make a major portion of our food, and we also use several animal products such as leather, ivory, fur, and so on in our daily life. New Year is the perfect time to make a resolution to be nice to animals. Making a few...
Posted by SLN Staff on Jan 3rd, 2014 | Comments Off on Interesting Farm Animal Christmas Stories Role Of Farm Animals
Hope everyone had a marvelous Christmas. Most of our food for Christmas comes from livestock and farm animals or animal products. We get about 30% of daily food from some kind of farm animal products such as milk, meat, eggs, fertilizer for crops, feed for fish, etc. In our previous blog, we posted some interesting facts about farm animals. So it would be nice if we learn some of the interesting...
Posted by SLN Staff on Dec 17th, 2013 | 1 comment
What is a flight zone of an animal? Flight zone is an area surrounding an animal, a distance an animal will keep for feeling safe from predators or potential danger. If encountered in this zone, including the herd handler, the animal might become alarmed, or try to escape or show escape behaviors. It is often difficult to move large groups of herding animals, especially if they are not...
Posted by SLN Staff on Dec 17th, 2013 | 4 comments
We are all familiar with different types of animals. We keep in contact with several types of living or dead animals everyday and there are many interesting facts about them that we don’t know. It is very interesting to learn about the animal behaviors because many of us, especially those of us who live in the country, interact with the farm animals as well as other pet animals on a regular...
Posted by SLN Staff on Dec 11th, 2013 | Comments Off on Livestock Nutrition and Winter Livestock Management
Winter can be a harsh time for animals, with the freezing rain, slit, snow and rain. While we, the humans are able to cloth ourselves in warm cloths and stay indoors to drink a hot cup of coffee or hot chocolate to keep us warm, the animals on the other hand, must rely on us in order to stay warm and safe and secured for the winter. During the winter months, the livestock and other pet animals...