Ruminants

The Answer as regards to the ruminant breeds better for you to raise as a farmer largely depends on a lot of factors: ranging from… Read More »Find out which of the Ruminant Breeds is better to raise

If you are to raise ruminants for production, it largely depends on the amount you have at hand and the available space you have to… Read More »The Ratio of a Male to Female Ruminants

It has been proven that male animals grow faster and bigger than the female animals. Also, it is a reproductive waste to raise female ruminants… Read More »Fattening Ruminants? Find out the Best Sex to Raise

There are some 300 breeds of goat, many of them located in the tropics and subtropics. They have developed not only in response to a… Read More »Description of Some Popular Goat Breeds

Goats and sheep are small ruminant belonging to the tribe, called caprini. This tribe is divided into two parts or genera, Capra and Hemitragus. The… Read More »History and Distribution of Goats

A major attraction of intensive sheep production is the opportunity it offers for large scale production of rams especially for sale during festivals when they… Read More »Feed Lot Fattening of Rams Practice

Intensive sheep production aims at obtaining two lambing per year and achieving high growth rates. Breeding and reproduction management should therefore receive proper attention. This… Read More »The Systems of Sheep Production

There are about four main breeds of sheep. These are the West Africa Dwarf, Yankasa, Uda and Balami. All are hairy types. The West Africa… Read More »Breeds of Sheep and Breed Characteristics for Selecting Sheep

Cattle Feed Supplies: The provision of feed that is adequate both in quantity and quality are available all year round countries to be one of… Read More »Major Production Constraints of Cattle Production

Cattle resources are mainly concentrated in the Sudan, Southern Guinea, Northern Guinea and the Sahel ecological zones in a descending order of distribution. Cattle production… Read More »The Principles of Cattle Production

Both fattening the ruminants or Raising them for production are good practices in Ruminant Farming but it largely depends on your interest because if you… Read More »Fattening Ruminants vs Raising them for Production: Find out which is more Economical

Herding is the practice of caring for roaming groups of livestock over a large area of land and the animals are cared for against predators… Read More »Beef Production: Herding, Advantages, Disadvantages, Impact and Issues

Goats are vital to India’s farming systems, with 135.17 million contributing 27.8% to livestock. They’re favored by small farmers for low investment, high prolificacy, and… Read More »Commercial Goat Farming Guide

Goat farming offers significant opportunities for rural communities to enhance livestock productivity and create sustainable income streams. This article explores various value-adding initiatives, tools, and… Read More »Goat Farming: Enhancing Value and Productivity

Goat commercialisation involves transforming traditional goat farming into a profitable business by understanding costs, optimising herd composition, and exploring diverse marketing strategies. This article provides… Read More »Goat Commercialisation Guide

Creating a suitable environment for goat kids is essential for their health and growth. Properly designed enclosures, combined with effective feeding and management practices, can… Read More »Optimizing Goat Enclosure Design and Management

Raising healthy goat kids is vital for a thriving herd. Proper care from birth reduces mortality and ensures strong growth. This article outlines essential practices… Read More »Goat Kid Rearing Guide

Goat reproduction and kidding are critical for herd productivity. Effective management ensures healthy kids and sustainable herd growth. This article explores key aspects of goat… Read More »Goat Reproduction and Kidding Guide

Effective goat management ensures healthy, productive animals and sustainable farming. This guide covers essential practices for identifying, handling, and caring for goats. From eartagging to… Read More »Goat Management Guide

Protecting goats from disease is crucial for their health and farm productivity. Proper shelter, parasite control, and vaccinations are key to preventing stress and illness.… Read More »Goat Health and Vaccination Guide

Maintaining a healthy goat herd is crucial for productive farming. This guide, adapted from a textbook article, outlines key practices for recognizing and sustaining goat… Read More »Goat Health and Management Guide

Goat farming requires vigilance to maintain herd health. This article explores prevalent diseases and conditions affecting goats, providing insights into symptoms, prevention, and treatment. Understanding… Read More »Goat Health Guide: Common Diseases and Conditions

Goat farming is a rewarding agricultural venture that requires knowledge of breeds, reproduction, management, feeding, and disease control. This article provides practical guidance for farmers… Read More »Goat Farming Essentials

Dairy goats are the breeds of goats that are mainly used or raised to produce milk. Some common breeds of dairy goats in the United… Read More »What is a dairy goat? What do dairy goats like to eat? Which goat gives more milk?

Hand-milking or let’s say that milking a goat is the most important part for you if you are raising a few goats for fresh milk… Read More »How to Hand-milk a Goat, Follow These Steps

Goats milk is easier for digestion, and the meat is lean. Goat produces a unique flavor as well, resulting in special tasting milk and additional… Read More »How Much Milk You Can Get From A Goat

Dairy Goats are goats raised for the purpose of milk production. Goat milk has long been a staple product for people who suffer from allergies,… Read More »How long it takes for a Goat to produce Milk (Goat Milk)

With regards to Goat Breeds for Meat, Findings have shown that goat meat is relatively healthy with almost as few calories as chicken thou It… Read More »List of Breeds of Goats for Meat Production (Goat Breeds for Meat)

Pulpy kidney (enterotoxaemia) is a disease of sheep, goats and cattle. It occurs in sheep when a bacterium that normally inhabits the animal’s intestines without… Read More »Pulpy Kidney Disease in Sheep and Goats: Symptoms and Prevention Control Measures

Tetanus is a disease that causes stiffness that leads to paralysis and then death. Goats are very susceptible to tetanus. Tetanus is caused by a… Read More »Tetanus Disease in Goats: Symptoms and Prevention Control Measures

Goat farming (including baby goats) and any breed of goats at all e.g. Pygmy goat, Australian Miniature Goats, Nigerian Dwarf Goats and others involves the… Read More »Ways to Maintain a Healthy Goat Farming Practice

Goat farming (including baby goats) and any breed of goats at all e.g. Pygmy goat, Australian Miniature Goats, Nigerian Dwarf Goats and others involves the… Read More »The Different Breed of Goats – Diary and Meat Goats

Molasses, a dark, sticky sweetener byproduct of sugar production, has been used as a supplement to livestock meals with good results for being a quick… Read More »How Fortified Molasses helps for Survival Feeding of Beef Cattle

Calves meaning: A calf (plural calves) is a young domestic cow or bull. Calves are reared to become adult cattle or are slaughtered for their… Read More »When bucket feeding of calves care should be taken

The process of goats licking blocks are usually not like other livestock that can do well with a block of minerals, other livestock like cows… Read More »Is Licking Blocks Good for Goats Health? Find Out

Deworming (sometimes known as worming or drenching) is the administration of an anthelmintic drug (a wormer, dewormer, or drench) to a human or animal to… Read More »Drenching Technique in Sheep

Are you wondering is maize porridge good for goats? Then in this article, we are going to find out if maize porridge is really good… Read More »Is Maize Porridge Good for Goats? Find Out

Goat meat, also known as mutton or chevon, is the meat obtained from domesticated goats. It is a popular food in many countries, particularly in… Read More »Health Benefits and Uses of Goat Meat

When you are faced with a challenge like this one or you come across someone who faces this type of challenge then you will understand… Read More »Causes of Regular Abortion on Pregnant Goats and Control Measures

Goats are one of the most popular animals which are being raised for the purpose of milk and meat production. There are different breeds of… Read More »Complete List of Goat Breeds for Milk Production (Diary Goats)

Both sheep and goats have a total of 32 teeth. They do not have any upper incisors. The dental formula for sheep and goats is… Read More »Estimating of Age Using Dentition in Sheep and Goat

In the determination of body weight in small ruminants, proper measurement of live body weight, which often is hard in the village settings due to… Read More »Determination of Body Weight in Small Ruminants

Catching and restraining a Sheep: catching a sheep the right way should be easy. Doing it the wrong way is stressful both for the shepherd… Read More »Guide to Catching and Holding of Sheep and Goats Easily

The domestic goat is a subspecies of the wild goat of southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. It is a member of the bovine family, and… Read More »Goat Production Process Complete Guide

In sheep production, the careful management of the pregnant, parturient and lactating ewes will have a marked influence on the percentage of lambs dropped and… Read More »Sheep Production Process Complete Guide

Fattening/Finishing involves intensive feeding of sheep and goats to slaughter weight with adequate finish (fat deposit) in feedlots. This targets the local market that has… Read More »Fattening of Sheep and Goats Complete Guide

The goat farming business is one of the lucrative aspects of animal husbandry. Although goats can adapt themselves to almost all types of environments, it… Read More »The Basics to Successful Goat Farming Business

In this article, we are going to be discussing the remedy for baby goat kid white and yellow loose motion. White and yellow loose motion… Read More »What is the Remedy for Goat Kid White and Yellow Loose Motion

Baby goats (goats generally) are usually not like other livestock animals that can do well with a block of minerals, this is because other livestock… Read More »Is Licking Block Good for Baby Goats Health? Find Out

The quality of female sheep milk is directly related to the nutrition and mineral fed before and after the ewe gives birth to the lamb. … Read More »How to Increase Sheep Milk for Maximum Profit

In this article, we are going to look at the ways by which we can make a baby goat kid lick a block i.e. how… Read More »How to Make a Baby Goat Kid Lick a Block

Beef cattle are primarily raised for meat (except dairy cattle, used for milk production). The meat of mature or nearly matured ones is commonly referred… Read More »Major Production Constraints of Cattle

Castration is an important management practice for sheep and goat farmers to maintain control of their breeding program and successfully carry out breed improvement. Castration… Read More »Guide to Castration in Sheep and Goats

The Situation: Communal cattle production grazing of the natural range is the primary source of herd nutrition and there is an inverse relationship between actual… Read More »Strategies for Improving Cattle Production

Cattle production’s long history and milk production was not always the ultimate goal. Keeping cows and oxen for droughting purposes and the production of natural… Read More »Best Systems of Cattle Production

A parasite including in ruminants, is a living organism that depends upon a living host for survival. It lives either inside or outside the host… Read More »Internal Parasites of Ruminants and Control Measures

Health care is the management of the well-being of animals including the diseases of ruminants to ensure normal metabolic and physiological processes in its system.… Read More »Diseases of Ruminants and their Preventive Measures

All animals including ruminants have dietary nutrient levels at which they exhibit optimal performance either for production or maintenance. This is what is referred to… Read More »Nutrient Requirements and Feeding of Ruminants

In some of our previous articles, you learnt about internal or endo-parasites of importance in ruminant animals. These animals are also infected with external parasites… Read More »External Parasites of Ruminant Animals

Feed is an important component of livestock production (ruminant animals). The feed and feeding practices employed in farm animal production is one of the determining… Read More »Feeding Materials for Ruminant Animals

For easy production of ruminant (ruminant production) or any farm animal certain equipment have been designed and are used to facilitate management operation. In ruminant… Read More »Equipment and Management Practices in Ruminant Production

In sheep and goat production, housing type depends on the system of production. Each system of sheep and goat production requires different housing needs that… Read More »Guide to Proper Housing in Sheep and Goat Production

Housing is an integral part of management, hence it is of great importance in cattle production. Housing must be well planned with adequate ventilation and… Read More »Guide to Proper Housing in Cattle Production

An effective production of sheep and goats for either meat, hides and skin or milk is affected by the occurrence of desirable traits in the… Read More »Management of Breeding Stock in Sheep and Goats

The success of any farm animal production in cattle lies in the ability to reproduce good quality traits which form the basis for selection and… Read More »Management of Breeding Stock in Cattle

In the tropics, sheep and goats have characteristic features that make them to survive in the environment. These features make these animals to develop a… Read More »Different Breeds of Sheep and Goats (Sheep and Goats Breeds)

Each group of animals including cattle breeds exhibit characteristic features that makes them stand out or easily identifiable. These characteristics are usually inherited hence could… Read More »The Different Breeds of Cattle (Cattle Breeds)

This article discusses various types of feed materials available in the environment for the feeding of ruminant animals, as mentioned in the earlier article on… Read More »Feed and Materials For Ruminant Animals: Types and Importance

The performance and utilization of plant materials by ruminant animals for production function is related to the efficiency of their gastro- intestinal tract. The handling… Read More »The Digestive Anatomy of Ruminants

Animal rearing is an age long activity that man carries out basically for food and the production of raw materials for agro-industries. Meat or flesh,… Read More »General Features of Ruminant Animals

Disease can be defined as any abnormal structural or functional change in the tissues of an animal. The direct or indirect causes of disease are… Read More »Diseases and Parasites Affecting Cattle: Causes and Prevention

Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) is a severe, highly contagious viral disease of cattle and swine. It also affects sheep, goats, deer, and other cloven-hooved… Read More »Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) in Cattle: Causes and Symptoms

This article addresses the issue of housing in sheep and goats. In the tropics and other regions, it is not common practice to house sheep… Read More »The Issue of Housing in Sheep and Goats

This article will address the general signs exhibited by healthy animals, signs of illness or disease, and the general measures of disease prevention on a… Read More »Measures for Disease Prevention in Livestock

In this article, the focus will be on the diseases and parasites that affect sheep and goats. Since many diseases and parasites are common to… Read More »Diseases and Parasites Affecting Sheep and Goats

In this article, the focus is on cattle, otherwise referred to as Large Ruminants. Cattle are a major source of livelihood for indigenous owners in… Read More »Importance and Classification Of Cattle

This article discusses the various breeds of cattle with a particular focus on tropical Nigerian breeds. Cattle breeds vary from one region or ecological zone… Read More »Things You Should Know About Nigeria Breeds of Cattle

In this article, the digestion process in ruminant animals is explored. Ruminants possess a digestive system that is significantly different from that of monogastric animals.… Read More »Digestive System in Ruminant Animals

This article provides basic knowledge of ruminant animals and the critical role they play in the Nigerian livestock sector. Some commonly used terminologies in describing… Read More »Introduction to Ruminant Animals in Livestock Farming

In this article, the focus is on sheep and goats, otherwise referred to as small ruminants. Since most of the features, reproductive patterns, and management… Read More »Introduction to Small Ruminants in Livestock Production

In the previous article, the origin and domestication of goats were discussed. This article focuses on the classification and breeds of goats, with particular emphasis… Read More »Classification and Breeds of Goats

In this article, feeding and breeding management of small ruminants is discussed. Poor nutrition remains a major factor limiting the productivity of indigenous ruminants in… Read More »Feeding and Breeding Management Practices in Sheep and Goat Production

Handling poultry involves capturing chickens and moving them to another area for activities like weighing or examination. Birds should be captured and handled only when… Read More »How Handle and Restrain Poultry and Rabbits

Fattening/Finishing involves the intensive feeding of sheep and goats to achieve slaughter weight with adequate fat deposits in feedlots. This process targets the local market,… Read More »Comprehensive Guide to Fattening Sheep and Goats

The proper measurement of live body weight, which can be challenging in village settings due to the lack of weighing scales, is essential for achieving… Read More »Procedures for Estimating the Weight of Small Ruminants

The rate of growth of forages in a pasture is directly related to how well the pasture has been managed, not only during the recent… Read More »Pasture Production and Management