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How to Dry Wet Cut Hay in the Field
When you cut hay, it has a high moisture content that must be reduced before you can bale and store it. If hay is baled and stored when it is wet, it is likely to get moldy, making it useless as animal...
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How to Use Jersey Cows for Nurse Cows
Using a Jersey for a nurse cow is a smart choice because the breed produces milk for multiple calves with a high butter-fat content. The butter-fat enriched milk provides good calf nutrition and...
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How to Care for Black Swedish Ducks
Originating in Pomerania in the 1800s, black Swedish ducks are found in many parts of the world. These ducks are one of the hardier breeds of duck and are relatively low maintenance. Black Swedish...
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How to Feed Beet Pulp to Beef Cattle
Sugar beet plants are processed to make table sugar. Beet pulp is the byproduct left over once the sugar has been extracted from the beet. Beet pulp is commonly fed to farm animals including cattle,...
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How to Mix & Feed Hay Rations for Beef Cattle
As ruminants, or animals with a four-compartment stomach, beef cattle primarily consume roughage feeds such as hay and pasture. The nutrient requirements of beef cattle differ according to the sex,...
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How to Feed Goats & Sheep
As with any livestock or pets, one of the keys to raising goats and sheep is keeping them well-fed with the proper nutrition. It's really not much more difficult to feed goats and sheep than it is to...
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How to Build Floating Duck Feeders
Floating duck feeders can be helpful if you have a large amount of ducks and a pond. Instead of feeding them on land, which would require sufficient space for the ducks around individual feeders,...
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How to Build a Feed-Trough for Cattle
Feed troughs are commonly used for feeding large farm animals. Essentially a community eating area, a simple trough can be built out of an old plastic barrel. Not only is it durable and capable of...
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How to Raise a Cow for Slaughter
Raising beef cattle often yields a very high return on investment while also being less labor intensive than other forms of farming. Pastures are best for soil conservation. However, more and more...
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Types of Hog Feed
Pigs are bred mostly for their meat, but pigs can also make excellent pets. In fact, some types of pigs are regularly kept as indoor pets because of their intelligence and personality. Whether you are...
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How to Feed Cattle on Silage
Silage can be used to feed cattle during periods of food scarcity. To make silage, green fodder is fermented to retain its moisture. Silage can be stored under anaerobic conditions in a silo, for long...
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How to Feed Grain to Cattle
Cattle can be free to munch on grass in a pasture, or receive a carefully controlled diet of grain, hay and further supplements. Their exact diet will depend on their purpose and your resources. If you...
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What to Feed Chickens if You Run Out of Chicken Feed
Don't panic when you suddenly realize that you are out of chicken feed and the stores are all closed for the night or even the entire weekend. While commercial chicken feed provides a convenient...
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How to Feed Peanuts to Cattle
Peanuts are an excellent source of protein and nutrients, particularly vitamin E. Not only do peanuts have nutritional value for people, cattle can also benefit from eating peanuts. Although humans...
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How to Make Your Own Pig Feed
While you can buy bags of premixed pig food at most farm supply stores, you might want to make your own pig food mix. Many people believe that you can feed pigs anything, such as your table scraps and...
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How to Feed Millet to Livestock
Millet is a fast-growing cereal plant commonly used as a feed for cattle, sheep and swine. Similar to oats and barley in feeding value, millet contains high amounts of protein and fiber. Millet...
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How to Make a Small Feed Lot for Cows
Small feedlots are used by family beef farmers or dairy farmers raising heifers or housing dry cows. The feedlots are a place where cattle can be fed grain and hay on a regular basis. They usually...
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How to Feed Steer for Slaughter
Feeding a steer for slaughter is referred to as "fattening out" the steer. This process takes between 1 and 3 months, depending on the breed, age and starting weight of the steer. Feeding a steer on a...
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How to Use Moringa to Reduce the Volume of a Broiler Feed Intake
Moringa oleifera grows in tropical areas from South America and South Asia to East Africa and the Pacific Rim. This tree is also known as the drumstick, horseradish or clarifier tree. Nutritionally...
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How Much Feed Is Needed to Feed an Average Cow?
Although cows can survive on grasses and wild grains, some ranchers supplement the diet with purchased feed to ensure their cows receive an adequate amount of food. The amount of feed required mostly...
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What Is Laying Mash?
If you're thinking about keeping laying hens on your farm, then you may be wondering what the best diet for these hens would be. Laying mash is a type of feed specifically for laying hens formulated...
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Salt licks are a food supplement for animals that provides nutrients and minerals lacking in the regular diet. They are routinely given to livestock to balance out the diet. They can also be created...
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How Often Do You Bottle Feed Newborn Goats?
Baby goats usually don't have to be bottle fed. Sometimes, though, a mother goat will reject a kid for reasons that only Mother Nature understands. If a doe has not accepted a kid within 24 hours, you...
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What Is a Barrow Hog?
A male, un-castrated pig is known as a boar -- a male pig that has been castrated after sexual maturity is known as a stag, or a hog -- and a pig that has been castrated before sexual maturity is known...
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Why Do Cattle Need Salt Blocks?
Salt blocks are a common way for cattle ranchers and dairy farmers to supply their herds with salt. Salt is needed as a dietary supplement in many regions where sodium and chloride cannot be obtained...
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How to Get Chickens to Drink Out of Nipple Waterers
Teaching chickens something new requires patience, but once they master a skill, it becomes a habit. Nipple watering devices allow chickens to get a drink on demand without soiling the rest of the...
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How to Raise Sheep for Meat
Raising sheep for meat can be a rewarding and profitable endeavor, especially if you live in an area where such meat is in particularly high demand. There are several things to consider when attempting...
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What Is Layer Mash?
Hens consume feed for body maintenance and the excess goes into the production of eggs. In order for hens to reach their full egg-laying potential, poultry feed must contain the necessary nutrients and...
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Are Sulfur and Salt Blocks Harmful to Cattle?
It is a common practice to set out sulfur and salt blocks for ruminants to supplement their mineral and vitamin requirements. Hence, these blocks are not considered harmful to cattle. However, the...
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How to Wean Calves by the Moon
Weaning calves can be stressful for all parties involved. Calves first separated from their mothers can bawl for days and restlessly move around their enclosure, tiring themselves and stirring up dust....
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How to Build a Cover to Protect Round Bales
Buying hay in round bales is more cost-effective than buying small standard bales of hay, but many people do not have enough room to store them inside out of the weather. With a few simple tools and...
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Do It Yourself Concrete Cattle Trough
Building a concrete water trough for cattle that is strong and secure is essential to herd health. On average, a cow drinks 12 gallons of water per day, eats one to five pounds of grain per day, and...
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DIY Square Bale Accumulator
Many farmers switched from producing square bales to round bales in the '90s, because of the lower labor required. Nonetheless, there are customers -- such as horse owners -- that still need square...
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What Do You Need to Raise a Pig?
There are many reasons why you would want to raise a pig: to ensure that the meat you eat comes from humane, drug-free sources; as a 4H project; or to teach your kids how to be more self-sufficient....
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How to Make a Rodent-Proof Chicken Feeder
Raising chickens requires providing protection from dangerous predators. Hen houses, coops and sheltered runs are vital to a chicken's well-being. But taking all the necessary precautions to fend off...
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What Do Ducks Eat in Captivity?
Your quacky friends will eat to their bellies' content regardless of what you give, so give what's best: pelleted mash with veggies on the side. Ducks can sparingly eat many grocery foods. For...
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How Much Will Ducklings Eat?
Whether you're raising ducklings as pets or for eggs or meat, you'll find them somewhat easier to care for than chicks. They're more disease-resistant. Whatever type of feed you give your ducklings,...
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Yellow Oleander Poisoning in Cattle
Cattle generally stay away from the yellow oleander plant when it grows in an open, green pasture. But when hay's harvested, the plant can mix into the diet. That lays a heavy burden on farmers and...
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What Plants Are Dangerous for Chickens?
Free-range chickens spend hours each day searching for food. Often much of their diet consists of plant parts and seeds, but some plants may prove dangerous for them. Consumption of certain plants may...
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Where Does a Baby Chick Gets Its Food Inside the Egg?
Your hen will sit on her eggs and keep them warm and safe for approximately 21 days after she lays them before the eggs begin to hatch. Inside the eggs, the chicken embryos develop into fully formed...
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