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Pro Tips for Livestock Health, Care, and Wellness

Farmbrite

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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LIVESTOCK mRNA

The Lunatic Farmer

s DEFENDER has done us all a wonderful service by shining the light on the plethora of pharmaceutical efforts to create mRNA vaccines for livestock. The important thing to realize is that the popular backlash against off-the-shelf livestock antibiotic use came to a halt in 2021; these medications now require a veterinarian’s prescription.

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Holding onto Farmland, One Land Trust at a Time

Modern Farmer

Without farmland to grow crops or ranchland for livestock, we don’t eat. Since 2018, they have been producing and selling free-range chicken eggs and meat on the farm’s idyllic 40 acres. Conserving farmland underpins a stable local food supply. Without agriculture, jobs are lost; 22.1 percent of the total US employment.

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Eating to save the planet: How hard could it be?  

Sustainable Food Trust

The challenge, for most meat-eaters out there, would be the significant reduction in the amount of pork, chicken and eggs available (due to the move away from permanently housed flocks and herds that are fed grain and imported protein feeds, to free-range, high-welfare systems). Complex food labelling also adds to the confusion.

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Holsinger Homeplace Farms: A Soil for Water Case Study

ATTRA

Holsinger Homeplace Farms now provides other families excellent grassfed beef and eggs from free-range laying hens. 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

Farmbrite

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. This means they excel as free range chickens. They do best as a free range bird, and thrive in both hot and cold climates.

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Measuring and Valuing: Animal welfare

Sustainable Food Trust

The majority of livestock farmers care deeply about their animals and want them to have a good quality of life. Furthermore, good animal welfare is important in improving farm sustainability as it impacts productivity and meat quality, whilst also reducing risk to the farmer from disease or injury in livestock.