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Cattle Producers Prepare For Calving Season

Depending on management plans, some cattle producers are preparing for calving season with some early arrivals already being reported.
 
With animals in their third trimester, it's important that the cow is getting what it needs to support herself as well as the growing calf.
 
Regional livestock specialist Colby Elford says she needs about 60 percent total digestible nutrients (TDN) and nine per cent crude protein in her diet.
 
Source : SteinbachOnline

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Cleaning Sheep Barns & Setting Up Chutes

Video: Cleaning Sheep Barns & Setting Up Chutes

Indoor sheep farming in winter at pre-lambing time requires that, at Ewetopia Farms, we need to clean out the barns and manure in order to keep the sheep pens clean, dry and fresh for the pregnant ewes to stay healthy while indoors in confinement. In today’s vlog, we put fresh bedding into all of the barns and we remove manure from the first groups of ewes due to lamb so that they are all ready for lambs being born in the next few days. Also, in preparation for lambing, we moved one of the sorting chutes to the Coveralls with the replacement ewe lambs. This allows us to do sorting and vaccines more easily with them while the barnyard is snow covered and hard to move sheep safely around in. Additionally, it frees up space for the second groups of pregnant ewes where the chute was initially.