Wildlife Ranching Magazine

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This migration is also known as the ‘great migration’, where 1.4-1.7 million white bearded wildebeest, thousands of Thomson’s gazelles, zebras and other antelope migrate together in a semicircular route through the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Ken

Wildlife Ranching Magazine

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Thus far in the series, the following have been discussed: article 1 – the different digestive classes or categories that exist for African ungulates larger than a blue duiker; article 2 – two bulk grazing herbivores, namely the hippopotamus and the

Grit

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We use the term “bloat” to describe how we feel after one too many tacos. But for cattle and other ruminant animals, such as sheep and goats, bloat is much more than post-meal discomfort. Bloat can escalate rapidly, and it’s often fatal if not treate

Wildlife Ranching Magazine

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In the previous article, the reader was introduced to the different digestive classes or categories that exist for African ungulates larger than a blue duiker. It discussed how the different classes differ with regard to what forage they select and w

Farmer's Weekly

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A cow’s stomach has four parts. The rumen, described above, is by far the largest. The other three, although smaller, also have crucial roles to play. Making up 5% of the ruminant’s stomach, this is a tube-like compartment, with the inner wall havin

Wildlife Ranching Magazine

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This will be the first in a series of six articles looking at the six broader classes of herbivores in context of nutrition and why the different animals select the food they eat, where both ruminants and non-ruminants will be discussed. These classe

Wildlife Ranching Magazine

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The group of antelope the article focuses on is the tiny antelope, species ranging from 0 and 25kg in weight, comprised of the duiker family, grysbok family, grey rhebok, klipspringer, suni, oribi, dik-dik and steenbok. When considering feeding, it i

Farmer's Weekly

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Cattle are a mainstay of agricultural production, and there are an estimated 983 million head of cattle on the planet, according to statista.com. 1. Cows kill more people each year than sharks. According to the journal Wilderness and Environmental Me

Deer & Deer Hunting

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I am often asked by my non-hunting acquaintances, “What can be so enamoring about sitting out in the woods through all kinds of adverse conditions just for an opportunity to shoot a deer?” They become even more perplexed when I explain to them that f

Australian Performance Horse Magazine

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Wild horses can complement an ecosystem, or life community, in many direct and obvious as well as more subtle ways. This they do when permitted their natural freedom to move and interrelate over a sufficiently extensive intact habitat and time period

Popular Science

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Moo-ve over, methane Pixabay Raising cattle contributes to global warming in a big way. The animals expel large amounts of methane when they burp and fart, a greenhouse gas many times more potent than carbon dioxide. U.S. beef production, in fact, ro

NZ Hunter

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Gazza is a keen hunter and he asked me to explain the disease and its effect on the animal. As I gave him a rundown on it, we started talking about posts we had recently seen on internet forums where hunters had shot something unusual and were asking

Wildlife Ranching Magazine

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Dr Ellen Dierenfeld is a comparative animal nutritionist with more than 30 years’ experience with a variety of species. She’s led Wildlife Nutrition Departments for the Wildlife Conservation Society (based at the Bronx Zoo) and St. Louis Zoo, oversaw

Farmer's Weekly

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Dairy cows are ruminants, and thus have a unique digestive system that can utilise forage, such as hay, silage, pastures or straw, as well as concentrated feeds, such as grains or protein sources (fishmeal, cottonseed oilcake meal, or soya bean meal,

Deer & Deer Hunting

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You might have heard that corn can be bad for deer. The more appropriate statement is that corn can be bad for deer if used incorrectly. One example of an incorrect use occurs when good-intentioned individuals start putting out corn during times of n

Country Style

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DAWN BREAKS while I walk my three dogs, Calli, Max and Nelson. The morning light bathes the paddocks in a golden haze and I cross my fingers, hoping the brilliant pink dawn is an indication of rain. The galahs have started their chatter in the gums,

Farms and Farm Machinery

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Stag Machinery Group is poised to assume responsibility for the Case IH dealerships in Toowoomba and Dalby, previously operated by Wideland Ag. This new business is the result of a partnership between Craig Brimblecombe of St George Machinery Centre,

India Today

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A medium-sized farmer in Mokamataal, Murari faces a curious dilemma. His harvest of wheat and dalhan (pulses) is ready, but he wants to sell the wheat to the government, which is offering an MSP of Rs 1,925 per quintal, and the masoor dal in the open

Deer & Deer Hunting

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At some point in life when we all get a bit long in the tooth and our hair begins to migrate from the scalp to the nose and ear canals, a curious obsession develops with reminiscing about the glory days of youth. For many, the exalted events of the “

India Today

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Amol Patil, a 36-year-old farmer from Datala in Maharashtra’s Buldana district, is evidently excited about his upcoming harvest—five acres of sweet lime, a very thirsty crop. He says he has been able to grow it only because of the improved water supp

NPR

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Microbe-free bovine life would be rough. Cows rely on single-cell accomplices for their digestion, so scientists are looking for ways to use these bugs to improve cows' eating and burping habits.

Farmer's Weekly

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‘THIS IS OF GRAVE CONCERN […]’ – Agri North West CEO, Boeta du Toit, expressing the organisation’s strong disagreement with generalised and unsubstantiated claims about farmers in the province not complying with labour legislation (pg 27). ‘It is […

Profi

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Kubota M7153 Now in its third generation, we put the powershift version of the M7153 through its most gruelling test yet. Out on February 12th Pöttinger Lion 503C, Aerosem 5002 FDD combination drill There's a flurry of new folding power harrow drill

Farmer's Weekly

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‘THIS WON’T BE ACHIEVED THROUGH LEGISLATION, BUT RATHER THROUGH SELF-LEARNING’ – CEO of the South African Pork Producers’ Organisation, Johann Kotzé, stressing that the behaviour of small-scale farmers would need to change if the industry wanted to c

Australian Country

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BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE, PHOTOGRAPHY KEN BRASS It helps if you choose your family and friends with care according to Tasmanian farmer Sophie Nichols. Having grown up on Littlewood, the mixed crop and grazing farm that’s been in her family for four generat

How It Works

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Babies and young children drank from clay 'sippy cups' during the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, and the practice may have existed as early as 7,000 years ago, a recent study reveals. These spouted artefacts have been found at archaeological sites acro

Farmer's Weekly

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Environmental Waste and Landfill Management, Emperors Palace, Johannesburg.Email admin@maphosam.co.za. Emerging Farmers and Agro-processing Conference, Protea Hotel Fire and Ice, Menlyn, Pretoria. Email Lindokuhle Nxumalo at lindo@empiretraining.co

Farmer's Weekly

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The annual Grain SA congress, held recently at Nampo Park near Bothaville, brought together grain producers from all over South Africa. This year’s theme was ‘Farmers Contribute’, and the main speaker, Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng, hailed the countr

Popular Science

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Goats grazing in an argan tree in Morocco. H Garrido/EBD-CSIC Goats climb mountains. Why wouldn’t they climb trees, too? But the sight of a herd of goats perched in a tree like a flock of birds is pretty startling. It certainly was to biologists trav

India Today

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Every morning, many farmers in Sanjegaon now empty out crates of tomatoes and fresh cucumbers for their cows and buffaloes. The rabi harvest has been good here, but there are few takers for the produce, so they feel it’s better to feed the livestock