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Dairy Goats Benefit From High Quality Nutrition
Click here to view as a pdf: Dairy Goats Benefit From High Quality Nutrition By Dan Leiterman Goats are competent browsers, which leads to the misconception that goats can eat and thrive on almost anything. In reality, because goats have a shorter digestive system relative to their body size, food is not retained as long.…
Gearing Up For Lambing And Kidding Seasons
Click here to read as a pdf: Gearing Up For Lambing And Kidding Seasons By Jessica Dercks, B.S. Preparing for healthy kids and lambs starts long before kidding and lambing seasons begin. It is vital for gestating animals to have a well balanced ration that provides the appropriate minerals and vitamins not only for their…
Maintaining Your Pasture To Maximize Feed Quality
Click here to view as a pdf:Maintaining Your Pasture To Maximize Feed Quality By Erik Brettingen, B.S. Pasture is a high quality, cost-effective feed that many producers rely heavily on during the summer months. Because pasture is such a crucial feed, it is important to manage it during vulnerable times to make the most…
Successfully Managing Internal Parasites In Sheep
Click here to view as a pdf: Sucessfully Managing Internal Parasites In Sheep By Contributing Editor Julie Wadzinski, B.S. Internal parasite resistance is becoming a serious concern across sheep flocks worldwide. Recent research has focused on different methods to minimize the genetic adaptation of internal parasites to survive deworming treatments (anthelmintic resistance). It is important…
Evaluating Dry Matter Intake From Pastures
Click here to read as a pdf: Evaluating Dry Matter Intake From Pastures By Erik Brettingen, B.S. Many producers we work with at Crystal Creek® utilize pasture as a valuable feedstuff in their ration during the grazing season. Pasture is a cost effective feed that provides great nutrition, supports rumen microbes, promotes animal health,…
Ask the Vet / Ask the Nutritionist
Click here to view as a pdf: Ask The Vet Ask The Nutritionist “Every winter we have a number of animals who come in with chapped or cracked teats. We would like to prevent this but we don’t know how? Is there anything we can use to keep the cold weather from wrecking our…
Profitability Is Nothing To Kid About
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Interpreting The Value Of A Livestock Mineral
Click here to read or download this article from our December Newsletter.