livestock Articles
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SQUARE KNOTS FIELD FENCES
Square Knot Field Fence has s-shaped knots to form a tough & sturdy structure that stands up to impact from large animals without buckling or sagging. It is a type of anti climbing fence, suitable for goat, sheep and cattle keeping, commonly known as S knot fence. S knot fence is made with a separate piece of wire to attach the line wire to the solid stay wire forming an impact resistant and ...
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Animal feed: the benefits of using a cloud-based software program
Today's world is very focused on the efficiency of digitization. That same efficiency has long been a common interest of livestock and dairy farmers. But more recent advances have brought the technology into the tractor, feed room and mill. With software becoming more cloud-based for any number of services, are there specific advantages to this change? Absolutely! Here are a few points to ...
By BESTMIX
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How technology helps improve animal feed quality and efficiency
In the age of technology, technology touches everything, even in agricultural settings and situations. Technology in recent years has been used to make things like swine production more efficient, building better livestock facilities with new capabilities, and even in growing the grain necessary for sustaining livestock raising. Technology also has a major hand in improving the quality and ...
By BESTMIX
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Karakul sheep production in Kazakhstan: an efficient collective enterprise under the state farm (sovkhoz) system and its collapse with the break–up of the Soviet Union
Prior to the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, Karakul sheep in Kazakhstan were raised mainly on large collective state farms, sovkhozes. Farmers had to meet quotas on lamb and pelt numbers and received wages, while state farms provided veterinary and breeding services, animal feed and marketing. With the break–up of the Soviet Union, land ownership, farm facilities, animals and payment ...
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Westway Feed Products: more than 50 hours of time saving thanks to BESTMIX and MILAS
When there are changes on the raw materials market, Westway Feed Products shifts gears quickly. The formulation software BESTMIX and the ERP solution MILAS help this specialist in the field of liquid animal feed supplements to ensure its customers optimum quality for a correct price. Moreover, the synergy between both Adifo software solutions allows more than 50 hours of time saving! Westway ...
By BESTMIX
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Feature of the month: Animal cycle, flock and livestock management in MILAS
ERP support is vital for companies operating within the nutritional industries. The importance of planning, checking and following up animal cycles and flocks shouldn’t be understated. If this flow is not handled correctly within the ERP, it can result in production and demand difficulties, causing supply issues at the farm. Moreover, it could mean that you simply won’t be able ...
By BESTMIX
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Biochar Animal Feed in Europe: Paving the Way for Sustainable Livestock Agriculture
In recent years, Europe has been at the forefront of promoting sustainable agriculture practices to address the challenges of food security, environmental degradation, and climate change. Among the innovative solutions gaining traction in the region is the use of biochar as animal feed. Biochar, a carbon-rich material derived from the pyrolysis of organic matter, holds great promise for enhancing ...
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Managing waste from confined animal feeding operations in the United States: the need for sanitary reform
Confined food-animal operations in the United States produce more than 40 times the amount of waste than human biosolids generated from US wastewater treatment plants. Unlike biosolids, which must meet regulatory standards for pathogen levels, vector attraction reduction and metal content, no treatment is required of waste from animal agriculture. This omission is of concern based on dramatic ...
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Pig Performance Testing: An Overview of the Osborne Fire System
In pig and other livestock breeding, feed conversion is one of the most essential criteria for genetic selection. The more efficiently an animal is able to convert feed into body mass, the faster it can get to market. Identifying superior feed conversion characteristics is important as this trait is passed on from parent to offspring. In the past, identifying animals with exceptional ...
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Livestock animal poultry feed processing plant for sale
39-40TPH Computer Control Poultry Animal Chicken Feed Plant For making Chicken Pellets And Chicken Premix Bosnia And Herzegovina 500KG/Batch Livestock Cattle Feed Mixer For Animal Feeds Plant Australia 1-2T/H Small Scale Chicken Feed Mill Project Madagascar 1-2T/H Small Animal Poultry Feed Pellet Machine Commercial Use Georgia 250KG/Batch Chicken Feed Mixer For Sale Poultry Farm Algeria Two Sets ...
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Making Animal Feed Pellets From Hay
Hay refers to dried grass used as livestock fodder. It is fed to especially pasturing animals, for instance, sheep, goats, horses and cattle when grazing is unobtainable due to harsh climatic conditions. Pellets are renewable organic matter made from compressed hay and other biomass, pellets are used to balance the nutrition for grazing animals. Also, the pellets are very nutritious and easy to ...
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How to store feed pellet
During the rainy season, the air humidity is relatively high. If the feed is not stored properly, it is easy to become moldy and deteriorate. Various nutrients in the moldy feed are destroyed, the nutritional quality of the feed decreases, and even its utilization value is completely lost. After livestock and poultry eat moldy and rotten feed, toxins will accumulate in the animal's body, causing ...
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Earthworms helping economy, improving ecology and protecting health
Earthworms can treat organic garbage, livestock manure and poultry droppings and turn them into premium organic fertilisers, because humus only exists in earthworm feces and castings, compared with other fertilisers. Earthworms can also supply quality animal protein as feed, and offer the best raw materials for the biochemical and pharmaceutical industries. Vermiculture should be put into a whole ...
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How precision feeding promotes sustainable livestock production
With Earth's population rapidly building towards eight billion within the next decade, every resource we produce is being stretched thin. Sustainability is becoming more than a simple buzzword of the environmental movement, it's now the prime focus of progress in our world. Though precision agriculture is a concept that has been around for decades, precision feeding is a newer concept. ...
By BESTMIX
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Transport of lincomycin to surface and ground water from manure-amended cropland
Livestock manure containing antimicrobials becomes a possible source of these compounds to surface and ground waters when applied to cropland as a nutrient source. The potential for transport of the veterinary antimicrobial lincomycin to surface waters via surface runoff and to leach to ground water was assessed by monitoring manure-amended soil, simulated rainfall runoff, snowmelt runoff, and ...
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Correct use of ring die of animal livestock horse goat sheep rabbit shrimp feed pellet mill machine
First of all, under the premise of selecting high quality ring die, appropriate die hole form, open hole ratio and compression ratio (compression ratio = effective length of die hole/die hole diameter) should be selected according to the feed variety, formula and output. Generally speaking, straight holes and stepped holes are suitable for processing compound feed; Conical hole is suitable for ...
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Why do farmers pick poultry feed pellet making device?
As increasingly more farmers make use of chicken feed pellet making equipments, several farmers that have been breeding for more than 10 years start to have several troubles. As an example: why would certainly you make use of a poultry feed pellet making machine? Our town basically types meat rabbits, as well as the outcome is not particularly big, however nearly every family ...
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Exactly how to build an animal feed production line with an outcome of 5t/h?
The RICHI pet poultry fish animal pellet feed production line 5t/h is an automated feed plant that refines different feed resources into feed pellets according to the technological formula, as well as gives complete pellet feed for chicken, livestock as well as poultry, fish as well as shrimp. A collection of processing procedures such as squashing, mixing, powdering as well as cooling are one of ...
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Season matters when sampling streams for swine CAFO waste pollution impacts
Concentrated (or confined) animal feed operations (CAFOs) are the principal means of livestock production in the United States, and such facilities pollute nearby waterways because of their waste management practices; CAFO waste is pumped from the confinement structure into a cesspit and sprayed on a field. Stocking Head Creek is located in eastern North Carolina, a state with >9,000,000 ...
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How do you learn to calculate feed?
Nowadays, anyone starting out in feed calculation often does not know where to begin to ensure a good feed is formulated. There are thousands of sources both in literature and on the internet which give advice and recommendations about countless important nutrients and pollutants. What to do as a beginner? To evaluate rations or mixes correctly, you first need to have a very sound knowledge ...
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