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How to handle your beef cattle – Part 1: Understand your cattle
For successful beef production, certain facilities are necessary. These facilities must simplify the management of cattle and it must be functional and economical. The ARC Institute for Agricultural Engineering in South Africa has made their manual on handling facilities available to ProAgri Zambia so that our readers can benefit[...]
Dehorn cattle for more profits: Part two – Methods
By Neil Anderson - Lead Veterinarian - Disease Prevention, Ruminants/OMAFRA (Ontario Ministery of Agriculture and Food) Last month we discussed the reasons for dehorning and in this second part of the short series we take a look at different methods of dehorning. Polled bulls Horned or polled cows mated[...]
Dehorn cattle for more profits
The one form of disarmament that makes sense, is the removal of cattle horns. In this short two-part series we discuss the reasons for and ways of dehorning. Horns and their growth Horns are the pairs of hard, bonelike, permanent growths projecting from the heads of cattle. They grow[...]