cattle Articles
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Transformation of Borana from nomadic pastoralists to agropastoralists and shift of livestock from cattle to include more goats, camels and sheep in Southern Ethiopia
Traditionally, Borana in Southern Ethiopia raised cattle for meat, milk, blood, leather, dung and cash and depended on nomadic and transhumant pastoralism for their livelihood and lifestyle. The government policy today is to sedentarise the pastoralists and convert the pastureland into cropland. Kebeles (pastoralist associations) have been established and these bodies have usurped much of the ...
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Differentiation of meat species by means of Polymerase Chain Reaction technique
The present study was designed to investigate the efficiency of random amplified polymorphic DNA-polymerase chain reaction (RAPD-PCR) technique in differentiating meat species viz cattle, buffalo, sheep, goat, pig and chicken. Different random primers were screened with DNA extracted from meat samples of cattle, buffalo, sheep, goat, pig and chicken. Characteristic species-specific bands of ...
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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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The Ins and Outs of Cattle Nutrition
They say, “You are what you eat.” What goes in and out of our bodies is obviously important for our general health and maintenance. Well, the same holds true for our cattle as well, but with one main difference: Where we only have one stomach to worry about, they have four! Cattle are animals technically classified as ruminants, a distinction that includes sheep, goats, and deer. ...
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The dangers of Mad Cow Disease!
The dangers of Mad Cow Disease! For the first time in over ten years Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) better known as Mad Cow Disease has reared its head again in the UK with cases recorded on a farm in Aberdeenshire, Scotland this October. A highly problematic virus that has previously devastated livestock in 1986 when 180,000 cattle were found to be infected, which led to a mass ...
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rfid ear tag
SEIKO RFID provides an extensive range of electronic ear tags for livestock identifications, including the cattle, sheep, goats, deer and swine. EID ear tag are approved by ICAR, compliant with ISO 11784 and ISO 11785, operating at the 134.2 kHz. For designing superior retention, security, usability, outstanding durability and readability, the RFID transponder was made in re-usable and single-use ...
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Animal Feed Pellet Machine
Many customers are interested in purchasing animal feed pellet machines for their farms to produce feed pellets for a variety of animals including chicken, duck, goose, cattle, goats, sheep, pigs, and others. These customers often inquire about the price and specifications of the machines to assess if they have sufficient funds and if the machine’s capacity and features meet their ...
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All-Natural KMI Zeolite for Animal Feed, Dairy & Compost
Feed Additive Zeolite is used widely by livestock farmers as an animal feed additive for beef cattle, dairy Cows, Swine, poultry (broilers & egg production), and sheep. Since Zeolite is the World’s only naturally occurring, negatively charged, mineral a great number of benefits in the feed process can result from the basic chemistry of the zeolite as an animal feed additive. Many ...
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How do I drench sheep, goats or other livestock?
Internal parasites can be a significant problem for livestock farmers. Liver fluke and worms cause financial burden due to treatment costs and production losses. Not to mention the enormous impact they have on the animal's welfare. What is drenching? The word drenching can have a few different meanings. In this article, we are referring to the administering of fluid orally meaning into the month ...
By FarmRexx
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Why is poultry cattle goat feed pellet making equipment matter?
Why is the chicken livestock goat feed pellet making device one of the most vital devices in poultry feed handling? With the surge of the breeding market, automated machinery changes labor, chicken livestock goat feed pellet making machines have actually gone into hundreds of households, as well as chicken feed handling devices has ended up being the right-hand man of feed processing plants. ...
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Assessment of swine-specific bacteriophages of Bacteroides fragilis in swine farms with different antibiotic practices
We assessed the occurrence and specificity of bacteriophages of Bacteroides fragilis in swine farms for their potential application in microbial source tracking. A local B. fragilis host strain, SP25 (DSM29413), was isolated from a pooled swine feces sample taken from a non-antibiotic farm. This strain was highly specific to swine fecal materials because it did not detect bacteriophages in ...
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Surprising ways Kenyans are embracing climate-smart agriculture
In rural Kenya, where it may only rain twice per year, farmers and herders are embracing so-called “climate-smart” agriculture. The video above, produced by the World Bank, begins by showing how John and Mary Obuom have transformed their one-acre farm into a model of sustainable practices. The family plants a diversity of crops in case one or more fails in a given year. A thicket of ...
By Ensia
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Hope for Senegal’s blacklisted Ramsar site
June is the end of the hot and dry season in Senegal. More auspiciously, it is peak mango season. As I drove north from the capital of Dakar with a team from the Wetlands International Africa office, mango sellers blanketed the roadside selling the best mangoes I’d ever tasted. On my journey to Senegal’s Ndiaël Avifauna Special Reserve, a former floodplain with wetlands of ...
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Catastrophic cost of Foot and Mouth Disease
Foot and Mouth disease has never completely disappeared. Although it has been almost 20 years since the last major outbreak of Foot and Mouth disease in the UK, which cost the industry more than £8 Billion, it does not mean that the disease is not still a very real risk to the economy. This August the first outbreak since 2001 in the UK was identified at an abattoir in Brentwood in ...
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Sustaining Mali’s Inner Niger Delta
The Inner Niger Delta in central Mali is a giant green oasis on the edge of the Sahara desert. It is one of the country’s most productive areas, but also among its poorest. At the height of the wet season, when the River Niger is swollen by heavy rainfall in Guinea, an area the size of Belgium, from Mopti to Tombouctou, turns into a landscape of lakes. As I discovered on a previous visit ...
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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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When population growth and resource availability collide
As land and water become scarce, competition for these vital resources intensifies within societies, particularly between the wealthy and those who are poor and dispossessed. The shrinkage of life-supporting resources per person that comes with population growth is threatening to drop the living standards of millions of people below the survival level, leading to potentially unmanageable social ...
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The localization of agriculture
In the United States, there has been a surge of interest in eating fresh local foods, corresponding with mounting concerns about the climate effects of consuming food from distant places and about the obesity and other health problems associated with junk food diets. This is reflected in the rise in urban gardening, school gardening, and farmers’ markets. With the fast-growing local foods ...
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A Decade After Asian Tsunami, New Forests Protect the Coast
The tsunami that struck Indonesia in 2004 obliterated vast areas of Aceh province. But villagers there are using an innovative microcredit scheme to restore mangrove forests and other coastal ecosystems that will serve as a natural barrier against future killer waves and storms. On the day that the Indian Ocean tsunami hit his village a decade ago, fisherman Hajamuddin was at sea. It was the ...
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Full Planet, Empty Plates: Chapter 2. The Ecology of Population Growth
Throughout most of human existence, population growth has been so slow as to be imperceptible within a single generation. Reaching a global population of 1 billion in 1804 required the entire time since modern humans appeared on the scene. To add the second billion, it took until 1927, just over a century. Thirty-three years later, in 1960, world population reached 3 billion. Then the pace sped ...
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