Animal Health And Safety.

Good morning its another cold day in this great city of ours but if you can believe the weather service its suppose to get up to a whopping 42 this weekend.

Today lets mention a little about animal health and safety. Nutrition a well fed animal is more likely to be a healthy animal. But what does well - fed mean, it all depends on each individual animal.

Young calves should recieve about 10 percent of there body weight daily. A good way to wean calves is to add increasing amounts of water to a constant amount of milk. A cows milk production will be higher if water is always available free choice. Horses as a rule, there needs are 1 and a half to to 1 and a third pounds of quality hay per 100 pounds of body weight, if its doing light work it also needs some grain bout 1 and a half pounds, I would consider looking into LMF horse feed, its made for horses in the northwest it out does any other products you will notice.

The most common mistake is over feeding a horse, never feed moldy or a dusty hay, it can be poison by some of the toxins that some molds produce.

Now the last animal now will be the swine. Feeding garbage is hazardous, because organisms of all kinds can be in the meat scraps, but as long as as there are no meat scraps in the mix then any other food products will be ok, but as grandpa would tell me if you feed a pig garbage you will end up raising pigs that wouldnt be as good.
Corn is an excellent source of energy but shouldnt feed just corn, a good mixture of grain works great there is a good mix its 40% protein and I can get it at the warehouse and you only use about a pound or so a day mixed in with the grain.

Well next time I will talk about goats and sheep, so enjoy the day and take care, any questions email me or better yet stop by the store and we can talk more on my favorite topic and thats farming and the days when farming was a way of life. Take Care.

Jack Donais
bordertownfeed@yahoo.com