Balancing market price, potential future demand, and the cost of feeding more mouths than you have feed for may lead to thinking about culling. Here are some thoughts to help you in making those kinds of decisions.
Not only will this help you understand if you should provide cafeteria minerals to your herd, but it will also give you some new insights into how creatures choose what to eat.
Grass Run Farms did the leg work to make it easier for you to put a label on your grass fed beef that helps show its value when compared with conventional beef.
Understanding how animals choose what to eat, based on learning and how their bodies work, will help you see why your animals are eating what they're eating and give you a leg up on figuring out how to help them do more for you.
When we were getting ready to write this, Kathy read Jessica Toothman's piece called "10 Completely False Facts Everyone Knows." Â In her conclusion she...
We are used to thinking about forage type, nutrition and quantity as we raise our animals, but we overlook what animals might be learning from Mom and herd mates. Since what a young animal learns about food has life-long consequences, knowing more about this process can help us be more successful managers.