Ruminant Feed: Why Taking Care of Your Cattle Starts with Taking Care of Their Food First In the world of animal husbandry, the role of ruminant feed cannot be underestimated at all. As the term indicates, it is a type of food given to ruminants that farmers raise. In...
Let’s Talk about the Ruminants a Little Most ruminants are farmed as livestock for human consumption. The steak you have for dinner, the ground meat in your favorite pie, and those chunks of juicy beef slices flanked between the buns of your burger—all come from...
Types of Cereal Crops and Their Nutritional Benefits Cereal crops belong to the grass species Gramineae. They are cultivated because their grains are edible. Botanically, this grain is a type of caryopsis fruit consisting of endosperm, germ, and bran. Cereal is a...
In winter, farmers usually have difficulty feeding their cattle due to limited conventional forage sources. Many of them then use straw as an alternative cattle feed in the winter. How to use it as cattle feed? Here is some information you need to know. The Energy...
Important Aspects of Feeding Maize Grains to Dairy Cows There are various types of cereal fodder crops that you can give your dairy cows. The one that is considered the best is maize grain because it has high energy content and can increase dairy cows’ milk...
