Enteritis, or digestive tract inflammation, is one of the most common disease conditions in rabbits.  Unfortunately, rabbit enteritis itself is usually a symptom and has many potential causes. There are several […]

Healthy hens will begin laying eggs at about 18 to 20 weeks of age. Here are some quick facts and tips about egg production and gathering.

It is not necessary for a rooster to be present for egg laying to […]

Many hens lay their first egg around 18 weeks of age and then lay up to an egg each day, subject to breed, environment and individual bird. At 18 weeks, switch to a chicken layer feed to provide the added […]

When moved to the weaning facility, one of the first things a pig should do is look for water and take a drink. Unfortunately, the stress of movement, new surroundings and new penmates can delay adequate […]

 Make mineral the foundation

The foundation of any sheep nutrition program is a high quality mineral. It ensures ewes have all the nutrients they need to support a healthy pregnancy, parturition and m […]

How do you decide what goat mineral to feed? Is it the same mineral you’ve always fed, a mineral your neighbor feeds or are you skipping mineral altogether? Mineral plays a critical role in goat performance, so i […]

Infectious Bronchitis: This disease doesn’t have slight mercy when it comes calling because of its tendency to cause ‘massacre’. It is easily identifiable by its capability to make chickens sneezing, snorin […]

In beekeeping, the place where you keep your beehives is called an Apiary, or a bee yard. Because beekeeping has different practices around the world, there are many different kinds of apiaries.  Commercial a […]

Fresh cassava leaves can safely be fed to growing pigs at levels up to about 25 per cent of the diet.

But in fresh cassava leaves, there is a high content of glucosides, linamarin and lotaustralin, which are […]

Keeping our coop and field clean from chicken waste is the key to raise healthy and thriving chicken.

You must daily shovel their waste from the coop, because they smell and attract flies and insects.

Sand […]

The average goat can mate at an age of 1-1,5 years old (there are some striking exceptions to this rule). The pregnancy period lasts about 5 months. Once the goat gives birth, she starts producing milk right […]

Rabbits are grazing animals. In the wild, they largely feed on grasses, wildflowers, vegetable plants, clover, twigs, and bark. They keep on eating throughout the day and are likely to eat, tastier, […]

Petroleum fractions have been used alone or as part of external parasite control product mixtures to combat flies and ticks in cattle for many years. In appropriate applications, they may be applied to the skin […]

Water indeed is an important element for every living thing. As a matter of fact, water makes up 80 per cent of the blood volume and of importance to you, milk is 80 per cent water.

For every litre of milk a […]

When piglets are feeding off of mama, mama decides when and how often to feed them. Life’s a breeze when you’re a piglet. When they are weaned, the piglets are suddenly responsible for feeding themselves. Some […]

Polydipsia is the medical term for excessive thirst in rabbits. It’s not a condition or disease in itself, but rather a symptom of an underlying problem. The issue which is causing polydipsia in your rabbit co […]

Foot rot is an infectious condition that causes swelling, heat and inflammation in the crevasse between cattle’s hooves, causing some of them to become lame in severe cases. Lame animals can lose weight quickly i […]

Honeybees often suffer from various pests and diseases. Some of them are minor and can be managed even after their spread. Hence they will not threaten the colony survival.

Some others are devastating if they […]

Feeding cattle in order to obtain the right amount of fat in the muscle and in a higher carcass mass, this  can be done in many ways is one of the ways farmers can fatten their Beef cattle.Farmers can use […]

The deep litter system of rearing birds is one of the popular methods embraced by commercial poultry farmers in Uganda. However, the system comes at the expense of big spaces, and a couple of other challenges. […]