Livestock Care – Forage Management for Fall & Winter

In our previous post, we described how fall and winter can really be tough times for livestock. Cold winter weather can be a real struggle for animals that have to stay outside most of the time facing freezing rain, sleet, snow, and storms. In this post we will discuss how you can save your pasture, keep your topsoil and grasses safe, and have a grazing ground for animals when spring arrives. We...

Proper Feeding & Nutrition of Livestock During Fall

Winter and fall are the toughest seasons for animals that spend the majority of their time outside. During the late fall and winter, the water can dry up or get frozen, and the pastures can become dry or covered with snow making it difficult to find food. For small farmers, it is important to decide which animals you want to carry through the winter. Select the beef or dairy cattle you want to...

Basics of Feeding Beef Cattle – Sustainable Livestock Nutrition

There are many misconceptions and myths regarding livestock, especially beef cattle. Beef cattle are being blamed today for everything from global warming to heart diseases, which are actually unfounded. Although they do produce methane gas, and they do contribute to high cholesterol and heart diseases if you eat a lot of them. Methane produced by livestock only account for 2.5% of the total...

Fodder System Update – Sustainable Feed & Grains For Farm Animals

The weather outside stays cold near freezing in the winter and it becomes difficult for farms animals to graze and feed from the pastures during the winter. Fodder production system that we are using has proven effective in growing commercial feed for the animals. We have been successful in growing barley in the cooler temperatures. Our feed in a box system is useful for feeding several types of...

Feeding and Nutrition of Livestock – Beef & Dairy Cattle

Forage such as silage, pasture, and hay are the feed most natural to all beef and dairy cattle. Dairy cows, beef cattle, and sheep, do very well on forage and grow naturally, although feeding them corn or grains will make them grow faster, and get fatter. Feedlots will often feed beef cattle corn. Corn has an inflammatory ingredient that make the beef cattle grow fatter, so that they may save on...