Creating Livestock Feed from Sprouted Fodder System

You can grow your own grasses from sprouting seeds with microgreen fodder system. Grasses grown in microgreen fodder system is an excellent way to supplement your livestock during feed shortages. As fall arrives, you may face difficulty providing feed to your livestock. Hay prices rise and your pastures may not provide enough grass for your animals to forage on. Regardless of what kind 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...

Livestock Alternate Nutrition & Cost Effective Supplements

When producing beef-and-cattle-based farm animal products, you should aim with forages to provide the majority of the food for your herd. However, many cattle farmers are challenged with forage growth issues like changes in forage quality, lack of rain, excessive heat, and rising costs of hay. This article will show you several cost effective alternatives and supplements that you can feed your...

Feeding Cattle & Others – Sustainable Livestock Nutrition

Livestock is very important for almost any small-scale farming around the world. Livestock plays several roles in many farms. They provide traction to cultivate fields, delicious and nutritious food for people, and manure to increase fertility of the fields to maintain crop productivity. Human beings have been raising livestock throughout the history for their own benefits and for generating...

Tips on Pasture Management & Feeding Heat-Stressed Livestock

Heat stress during summer can have a major impact on most farm animals and influence their performance. Animals feel heat stress at lower temperatures than what we would imagine. Some animals such as pigs can start feeling heat stress as the day temperature starts to rise and surpasses 70 degrees. Animals can start experiencing adverse effects of heat stress, if heat issues are not addressed. To...