Category Archives: Ruminant

A new look at body condition scoring

Before you page past this article, thinking that you know all there is to know ...

Trace mineral research shows benefits for gestating cows

A research study at Oregon State University shows that supplementing gestating beef cows diets with ...

The heat-stress checklist

The heat is on and, as we know from past experience, this means we will ...

Water: The life blood of livestock farming

Numerous parts of South Africa have been burdened by drought over the past few years. ...

Lameness in grazing cattle

Lameness in grazing cattle has some key differences from lameness observed in confinement housed dairy ...

What is working, and why?

Rather counter-intuitively, the ability to fix a situation like this successfully does not begin with ...