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Pro Tips for Livestock Health, Care, and Wellness

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Livestock health and wellness can directly impact the productivity, yields, product quality, and overall safety of livestock and the community served by your farm. 6 Key Livestock Wellness Management Practices Measure & monitor the overall wellness of your herd/flock/etc. safe and well.

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Holsinger Homeplace Farms: A Soil for Water Case Study

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Their animals are raised humanely and given the freedom to roam and obtain a nutritious diet from the forage base and their silvopasture system that includes black locust, black walnut, pine, cedar, and other mast, fodder, and shade-producing trees. Buck and AJ share their motivations and how they have a generational perspective.

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Top 10 Chicken Breeds for Colorful Egg Production

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The Easter Egger also makes an excellent forager, so if you want to let your flock free range and scratch around for their own food in the yard, this breed will likely do well at it. They are known to be predator-savvy and are excellent foragers. This means they excel as free range chickens.

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Do chickens deserve better?

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About once a month, I gulp when I pay £24 or thereabouts for my bird, which justifies its steep price tag because it is reared to the strictest legal ‘traditional’ and truly free-range standard, a slow-maturing variety fed on pasture and cereals, killed at 81 days. Farmed deer are still in the field for the best part of their lives.

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Top 6 Tips to Raise Healthy Layer Chickens

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ounces of water each day depending on if they are foraging or confined. For instance, if you have free-range chickens you face different challenges than those who are managing chickens in confinement. So, keeping clean water is important. Chickens consume about 33.8 This is also going to help keep a healthy flock.

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Soil for Water Video Case Studies

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Sheep and cattle are their primary livestock, but they also have layers for eggs. They have also raised other livestock and poultry through the years. Becky practices rotational grazing with a diverse forage base that includes native warm-season grasses, summer annuals, and cool-season perennials.

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