Ready for Piglets? What To Expect When Your Sow (Or Gilt) Is Expecting!
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Ready for Piglets? What To Expect When Your Sow (Or Gilt) Is Expecting!

Giving your sow or gilt (a female pig that has not been a mom yet) a happy life before she has her babies will be better for all, her, the babies and you. Pigs are very capable animals, if given the opportunity they will get what they need. Before a sow has babies she needs…

Beef Quality:  What Makes The Most Flavorful Results
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Beef Quality: What Makes The Most Flavorful Results

We all want the best tasting beef we can get! Often, it is confusing to sort through the opinions and propaganda to get to the results. What are the factors that really affect the taste of your beef? The most flavorful beef comes from animals that are raised in a low stress environment, are treated…

Why Do Chickens Eat Rocks? What “rocks” to feed your birds and why
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Why Do Chickens Eat Rocks? What “rocks” to feed your birds and why

Why do chickens eat rocks? Because they can not get dentures or false teeth! Just kidding about the dentures, of course. However, the eating rocks part is real. Chickens swallow food whole and eat small rocks, called grit, to help them grind up their food. Chickens that are loose can find their own grit, chickens…

Sheep Fencing: Pros And Cons Of Electric Vs Woven Wire
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Sheep Fencing: Pros And Cons Of Electric Vs Woven Wire

Sheep are not hard to keep in a fence. That’s the good news. Now you need to figure out which fence will work best for you. For non permanent fence lines for your sheep use electric netting, since it is fast, easy and more affordable. For permanent fence lines for your sheep, use woven wire….

Are Cattle Herbivores? An Easy Way To Tell (Applies To All Animals)
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Are Cattle Herbivores? An Easy Way To Tell (Applies To All Animals)

Herbivores or omnivores? When you are talking livestock sometimes this can be confusing to sort out. The good news is, (unlike people!), all cattle choose to follow the same diet plan. Cattle are herbivores. Herbivores are animals that are biologically designed to eat plants. Cattle, like all herbivores, have a specialized digestive system, specifically to…

Are Chickens Mammals?  5 Easy Things To Check
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Are Chickens Mammals? 5 Easy Things To Check

DeterminingCharacteristic Do Chickens Have This Characteristic? Do Mammals HaveThis Characteristic? hair and or/fur Normally no, but occasionally yes Yes females produce milk No Yes, once the baby is born live birth of babies No, chicks hatch from eggs Yes 1 time tooth replacement No, chickens do not have teeth Yes, baby teeth are replaced as…

Cornish Cross vs. Red Ranger Broilers:  Which Is Better To Raise?
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Cornish Cross vs. Red Ranger Broilers: Which Is Better To Raise?

As you’re looking through the poultry catalog, you’ll notice there are more than the standard white broilers available. Should you branch out and try some of the colored broilers, or would you be better off sticking with the white? Cornish cross broilers are the fastest to reach butchering weight and are easy to manage. Red…