Livestock & Pets

This section of the website holds articles on everything you need to know about keeping pets and livestock. Choose from the menu on the left to browse our articles.

Livestock & Pets
 

Farm Dogs - Exercise

Apart from helping to keep your dog fit, regular good quality exercise will help prevent boredom and the bad habits that often go with it, like persistent barking or continual pacing.

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Animal Breeding Basics - Population genetics

We use population genetics to study complex economic traits that are controlled by many genes.

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Animal Breeding Basics - genes

Naming genes. We use letters for this and there is an international convention to avoid confusion.

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Animal Breeding Basics - Introduction

What is animal breeding all about? We keep animals for many reasons, and it’s a great mistake to think that making money is always the top priority. 

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What does the animal need from its feed?

In this article Dr Clive Dalton examines the things an animal needs to get from its feed

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How ruminants digest food

Ruminants are animals that have a four-part stomach and can digest the fibre (mainly cellulose) in plants.

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Nutrition & Feeding

We have to provide a diet for the animal that will meet all its nutritional needs. 

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Rumen Development the key to Early Weaning

Studies in the United States indicate that 70% of calves are weaned 7 weeks of age or later.

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The Prebiotic Advantage

Increasingly calf rearers are becoming aware of the benefits of using prebiotic and probiotic supplements that have come onto the market in the recent past.

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