Posted by SLN Staff on Aug 7th, 2014 | Comments Off on Sustainable Livestock Nutrition & Management Tools
During the hot summer and early fall, a healthy diet becomes just as important for humans as it does for the livestock. Diet and animal management play a significant role in modern livestock operation and dairy cattle farms. This includes having daily rations and good use of minerals, supplements and formulations of a diet. The livestock industry and farmers are responsible for managing...
Posted by SLN Staff on Jul 16th, 2014 | Comments Off on Sustainable Livestock Feed- Energy & Nutrition
The global demand for food is increasing every day, and therefore it has become necessary to understand the sustainable feeding methods of animal production and farming. In the next decade, farming animals and raising animals for production of food will become extremely challenging due to the climatic changes, scarcity of resources, and shortages of food and water. Animals should not compete...
Posted by SLN Staff on Jun 18th, 2014 | Comments Off on 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...
Posted by SLN Staff on Feb 16th, 2014 | 1 comment
Fodder system can very useful for feeding any kind of livestock such as cattle, goats, horses, chicken, rabbits, sheep, and so on. Fodder can be grown and brought to the animals as feed and it could be anything that you grow, in addition to what they eat from the pastures as forage. Fodder can be any kind of silage, hay, straws, grass, compressed and palliated feed, and so on. We will discuss a...