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Search results for: animal welfare updates
Agribusiness News September 2023 – Management Matters: Decision Grade Data from Nature Tech
…to count numbers of animal species, like audio recorders and digital measuring devices such as camera traps and mobile apps can lack credibility as comparable, trustable data sources. This is…
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Agribusiness News September 2023 – Input Costs: Alternative Energy
…business and domestic properties, including agriculture. Heat demand on farms and crofts can be high for numerous reasons, including heating animal sheds, drying grain or cleaning. Low emission heating options…
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Grassland Management and Water Quality
…nitrates and phosphates. When these factors are outside of their safe limits, they have negative ecological impacts on animal and plant species that are reliant on clean watercourses, and health…
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Mineral Supplementation for Cattle Webinar
…minerals, these are important for the animal’s growth, productivity, and immunity. It is vital that supplementation of minerals takes place at the correct time and quantity throughout the cycle to…
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Mineral Supplementation for Sheep Webinar
…these are important in the animal’s growth, productivity, and immunity. It is vital that supplementation of minerals takes place at the correct time and quantity throughout the cycle to ensure…
Read More >Legumes
…crop. The area of field legume crops grown in Scotland is declining. These legumes are grown as a protein crop for animal feed. In 2018 there were only 515 ha…
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Docility Estimated Breeding Values (EBVs)
…by Alison Glasgow now with the Limousin Society. Her report showed animals can be bred to be more docile, particularly when handled and that animals with higher Docility EBVs were:…
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Top 10 Tips for Sheep Tagging and Records
…Animal Health of any holdings to be used for grasskeep, preferably before you move your sheep. (a SUSS requirement) Do a physical count at each gather and record up dated…
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Sub-Acute Ruminal Acidosis in the Dairy Herd
…suffer from SARA when rumen pH is around 5 to 5.6. Studies have shown that SARA can affect 20-40% of animals in high producing dairy herds (Calsamiglia, et al., 2012)….
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What Can Be Done About OPA/Jaagsiekte?
…thin, breathless animals lagging behind the flock. Offspring of culled animals should not be kept on for breeding. They frequently go on to develop OPA. Areas that housed suspect OPA…
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