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Managing Your Beef Herd: Highlighting Key Determinants of Success in Preconditioning
Publication providing beef cattle producers information on preconditioning, a management practice for preparing calves for a successful feedlot experience. Covers team building, weight gain, herd health and nutrition and...
Feeding Colostrum to Beef Calves
Feeding Colostrum to Beef Calves describes why it is important to get a calf off to a good start by ensuring adequate colostrum intake. In addition to providing antibodies, it provides essential nutrients. Besides being ...
The Value of Distillers' Grains as a Livestock Feed
2-page publication explaining the value of distillers' dried grain as a livestock feed....
Managing Aspergillus Ear Rot and Aflatoxin
This brochure offers quick tips to help grain producers, livestock producers, and storage and handling personnel minimize the risk posed by aflatoxin. Additional information is available on the Managing Moldy Corn websi...
Use of Dry Distillers' Grains with Solubles by Poultry
This 3-page publication discusses the issues that must be addressed before large amounts of DDGS can be fed on poultry farms. ...
Feed Ingredient Co-Products of Ethanol Fermentation from Corn
4-page publication explaining how feed ingredient co-products are obtained from ethanol fermentation from corn....
Reducing the Impact of Aflatoxins in Livestock and Poultry
This publication outlines the problem of aflatoxin contamination of animal feed and provides management practices that can lower the risk of contamination. ...
This publication addresses poultry health and productivity issues connected to exposing flocks to aflatoxin-contaminated feed. ...
Value of Distillers' Grain Ethanol Co-Products to Dairy Replacements
This 3-page publication discusses the storage and handling concerns that must be addressed and the requirements that must be met for wet DGS or DDGS to be an effective feed for dairy replacements. ...
Supplementing Young Grazing Dairy Heifers with Lick Tubs: A Case Study
Lick tubs offer dairy producers a nutrient supplement option for their pasture-raised young heifers. This publication explains what lick tubs are and provides findings of a lick tub study conducted by Purdue University r...
Feeding Distillers Grain to Young Dairy Heifers
Distillers grain is a popular livestock feed because of its availability and the cost of alternative feed grains. This publication looks at how best to incorporate distillers grain into the diets of post-weaned dairy hei...
Forages and Feeding Dairy Cattle During Drought Conditions
Drought conditions create numerous challenges on a dairy farm, including slow regrowth of pasture, hay and crops to be ensiled, reduced yields, lower forage quality and increased production costs. This publication looks ...
Value of Distillers' Grains for Lactating Dairy Cows
This 3-page publication discusses the feed value of distillers' grains for lactating dairy cows and the steps that should be taken to capture the maximal feeding value from corn ethanol co-products. ...
Importance of Colostrum for Lambs and Kids
This article advises sheep and goat owners on the importance of colostrum, the first milk produced after birth, which is essential for the survival of newborn lambs and kids. It discusses benefits of using high-qualit...
Nutritional Management for Horses
This publication is intended to help the horse owner to understand the basics of a good horse feeding program so that it can be best decided which management regime will best suit individual situations. ...
To make excellent quality hay, the forage needs to be cut at the right growth stage and packaged into a bale at the right moisture content without incidence of rain damage. Baling hay too wet can result in mold format...
Making excellent quality hay is a process that requires proper use of the right harvest equipment at the right stage of forage growth. Doing this will minimize yield and quality losses so nutritional needs of livesto...
The use of antimicrobials (substances that kill or inhibit microorganisms) in food animal production is one of the more controversial agricultural practices in the United States. The author of this 4-page PDF publication...
Value of Distiller's Grains as a Feed for Sheep
The rapid rise in the number of processing plants that use corn to produce ethanol has increased the availability of co-product feeds. Feedstuffs produced from the ethanol industry have now become mainstream commodities,...
Mycotoxin Concerns in Sheep and Meat Goat Feeding
During the 2009 Indiana corn harvest, livestock producers heard numerous reports of mycotoxin levels high enough to cause concern. The main mycotoxins in feed grains that sheep and meat goat producers need to be concerne...
Digestive System and Nutrient Needs of Meat Goats
Meat goats are ruminants and get the nutrients they need through a wide variety of feedstuffs. Because of this, producers must thoroughly understand digestive physiology and nutrition before they can develop an effici...
Getting Started with the Home Poultry Flock
The desire to begin raising poultry must be carefully considered before the first purchase. This publication details information about Housing Birds, Placing Birds, and Water and Feed....
Horses have been important to humans for millennia, and even those who have never ridden or even petted a horse care about their well-being. In this publication, a Purdue University professor discusses well-being fro...
This information sheet provides an overview of sheep well-being including how to provide appropriate care, interpret sheep behavior, and identify signs of poor well-being.
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Food labels, claims and animal welfare
Labels on packaged animal products provide information, but often there's more to the story. For animal welfare-related claims, consumers must do their own research. This publication includes a full-page chart that cover...
Factors Affecting Perceptions of Animal Welfare in Developing Countries
This article explores the influence of economic, cultural, and religious factors on attitudes toward animal welfare in developing nations.
The Influence of Dried Distillers' Grains on Carcass Fat in Swine
A 2-page publication explaining how DDGS in the diet affect the firmness of carcass fat in swine...
Beef Management Practices: When Forages are in Short Supply Because of Drought
A drought year can affect a beef producer's bottom line for three years. Proper planning and management can minimize the longer-term economic impact. In this publication, Purdue University experts review 18 management pr...
Forage Field Guide, fourth edition
The new fourth edition of this guide contains 324 pages of information for forage and livestock producers and the agricultural industries that serve them. This new edition features updates and changes throughout, includi...
Forage Field Guide, fourth edition (25/box)
This is a box of 25 copies of our popular in-field reference. The fourth edition of this pocket-size, in-field reference provides information for forage and livestock producers and the agricultural industries that serve ...
Indiana Plants Poisonous to Livestock and Pets
This book introduces animal owners to livestock and pet poisoning caused by plants in Indiana. Forty-nine poisonous plants are discussed. Symptoms and general treatment are noted. Line drawings are given for each plant...
This one-page publication entitled, "Head Scab of Wheat" deals with gibberella, the cause of head scab in wheat. Deoxynivalenol and zearalenone are two mycotoxins possibly produced by head scab. Feeding scabby wheat ...
Vomitoxin in Feed Wheat for Hogs
This one-page publication entitled, "Vomitoxin in Feed Wheat for Hogs" discusses vomitoxin and how it has caused the 1996 wheat crop to be diverted from human food to animal feed. Vomitoxin causes feed refusal and poo...
Coxiellosis in Sheep and Goats
This publication, by a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Purdue College of Veterinary Medicine, calls attention to coxiellosis, an infectious disease that can affect animals and humans. It's a hardy bacteria that ca...
Gut Feelings: How Probiotics May Improve Animal Welfare
"Probiotic" is a buzzword that isn't well understood. This publication explains the probiotics that exist in the gut of mammals, the chemicals they produce, the implications for animal welfare, and how to store them. Fo...
There is much to learn about raising chickens in a cage-free environment to produce eggs. Poultry specialists from Purdue, North Carolina State and Auburn universities have put together a primer of things you need to ...
Molds are a concern because they can reduce grain quality and storability. Under some conditions, certain molds can produce mycotoxins, substances that can be harmful to livestock and humans. This brochure explains basic...
Zearalenone Concerns in Reproducing Livestock
Mycotoxins in corn and other grains can reduce performance in both ruminants (cattle, sheep, goats) and non-ruminants (swine, poultry) and can have detrimental effects on both finishing animals and reproducing males and ...
Cage-free Egg Production: Benefits and Challenges
Consumers have many options when it comes to eggs, including eggs labeled as "cage-free". This paper explains how cage-free eggs are produced at the farm level as well as the benefits and challenges associated with c...
Nutritional Biotechnologies: Ionophores
Ionophores are a nutritional biotechnology that are commonly added to beef cattle and poultry diets. In this video, learn how this antibiotic is used, how it works and why there is no concern for antibiotic resistance.
Nutritional Biotechnologies: Phytase
Phytase is a nutritional biotechnology that is commonly added to swine and poultry diets. In this video, learn how this enzyme is used to enhance production efficiency while also helping to alleviate environmental concer...