Guide for replacement nutrition at first lambing
Solution name: Guide for replacement nutrition at first lambing Aim: Replacement feeding and management is at particular importance since it will determine lambing percentage and hence productivity. Planning and management of ewe lamb replacement feeding regime to...
Practical guide for conservation methods
Solution name: Practical guide for conservation methods Aim: To provide practical guidelines for conserving forages in animal nutritionDescription: Forages can be conserved to feed livestock during periods of shortage, caused by limited pasture growth or inadequate...
Targeted drainage system in the grassland
Solution name: Targeted drainage system in the grassland Aim: To provide precise solutions for different causes of lameness on pasturesDescription: Wet pasture can increase microbial activity in the feet and cause deterioration of the tissue between the nails, nail...
Checking Diet Tool
Solution name: Checking Diet Tool Aim: To provide advisors and even farmers with a tool to check a ration and to correct it if required.Description: Excel Tool. It is a basic ration program that calculates the requirements of sheep and goats in different production...
Forage, nutritional value tool
Solution name: Forage, nutritional value tool Aim: The evaluation of forage and feedstuffs compositionDescription: Excel tool. It calculates the energy and nutritional evaluation of forages or feedstuff in general, taking into account the common analysis values. It is...
Use of portable NIR’s to assess forage feed value
Solution name: Use of portable NIR's to assess forage feed value Aim: To assess in situ, on the farms, the nutritional content of the fodder used to feed ruminants in a rapid and precise wayDescription: Incorporate portable NIR technology for forage analysis as a...
Manual of good practices for the management of lambs on artificial rearing
Solution name: Manual of good practices for the management of lambs on artificial rearing Aim: To improve the efficiency of animals fed on artificial lactationDescription: It is a 8-chapter manual that describes: The advantages and disadvantages of the use of...
Good management practices for fattening lambs.
Solution name: Good management practices for fattening lambs Aim: Periodic check of factors that directly or indirectly affect the health of fattening lambs and replacement lambs of a flockDescription: The manual covers the 5 main topics: Food Health Facilities...
Deworming program for sheep
Solution name: Deworming program for sheep Aim: To have a deworming program to help the farmer to maintain or improve the body condition of animals. Description: To identify the specific parasitism problems (species and quantity of internal parasites) observed in the...
Design and strategy of the hoof bath
Solution name: Design and strategy of the hoof bath Aim: To control the incidence of lamenessDescription: Key Points for the Treatment of Footrot Topic: Health Production: Dairy/Meat Animal Category: Ewe/Replacement Issue: Lameness Level of Solution: Practical...
Bedding management and relative humidity references
Solution name: Bedding management and relative humidity references Aim: To check/assess some environmental conditions within the barn of the sheep.Description: Excel file. This solution includes a tool to evaluate some environment parameters in different parts of the...
Control plan of external parasites
Solution name: Control plan of external parasites Aim: To know the ectoparasites affecting lambs, to use the most appropriate product to control the parasitism, and to set preventive measures.Description: It is important to know the cause of itching, scratching or...
Inclusion and management of chicory (Cichorium intybus L.) in the forage systems
Solution name: Inclusion and management of chicory (Cichorium intybus L.) in the forage systems Aim: To extend the grazing season; to increase the quality of forage on offer; to decrease livestock production costs to improve robustness of the forage system and...
Inclusion and management of self-seeding legume species in the forage systems
Solution name: Inclusion and management of self-seeding legume species in the forage systems Aim: To extend the grazing season; to increase the quality of forage on offer; to increase the farm self-sufficiency; to decrease in livestock production costs.Description:...
Inclusion and management of Sulla (Sulla coronaria (L.) medik.) in the forage systems
Solution name: Inclusion and management of Sulla (Sulla coronaria (L.) medik.) in the forage systems Aim: to extend the grazing season; to increase the quality of forage on offer; to decrease livestock production costs to improve robustness of the forage system and...
“Wikiloc”- a free tool to record grazing activities
Solution name: “Wikiloc”- a free tool to record grazing activities Aim: To provide a solution for helping farmers who needs to improve their grazing routes, to know more about their routine grazing activities, to memorize the routes, stopovers and to use grasslands...
Flock Health Plan
Solution name: Flock Health Plan Aim: To monitor the flock and to reduce the incidence of disease, farmer stress and cash leakage.Description: Topics include: Biosafety Cleaning, disinfection and rat extermination of sheds Parasite control Disposal of cadavers through...
Guidelines for implementing rotational grazing
Solution name: Guidelines for implementing rotational grazing Aim: To provide a solution for helping farmers who are getting started into rotational grazing. Description: A four page A4 document containing a summary of the essential knowledge required for getting...
Use of Targeted Selective Treatment (TST) for ewe lambs
Solution name: Use of Targeted Selective Treatment (TST) for ewe lambs Aim: To reduce resistance to anthelmintic productsDescription: The TST approach relies on treating only the animals that need anthelmintic treatment An algorithm (“Happy Factor”) calculates the...
How to use molasses to homogenize feed ingredients and increase the lifespan of complete diets (unifeed)
Solution name: How to use molasses to homogenize feed ingredients and increase the lifespan of complete diets (unifeed) Aim: To improve complete diet homogenization and palatability. To extend the duration of the unifeed in order to utilize more efficiently the wagon...
Guidelines to manage foot-bathing
Solution name: Guidelines to manage foot-bathing Aim: Guidelines for appropriate managing of foot-bathing in order to prevent and control footrot and elated lameness in ovine.Description: Foot-bathing is regarded as a method to disinfect the foot of sheep after they...
Selective breeding for resistance to Maedi Visna Virus (MVV)
Solution name: Selective breeding for resistance to Maedi Visna Virus (MVV) Aim: Monitoring and eradicating MVV by selective breedingDescription: Maedi-visna (MV) in sheep and caprine arthritis encephalitis (CAE) in goats are caused by small ruminant lentiviruses...
Guidelines for controlling gastro-intestinal nematodes by anthelmintic treatments
Solution name: Guidelines for controlling gastro-intestinal nematodes by anthelmintic treatments Aim: Enhance therapeutic treatment together with prophylactic measures for controlling parasitosis.Description: Anthelmintic treatment strategies often follow generic...
Effect of birth and rearing type on lamb performance
Solution name: Effect of birth and rearing type on lamb performance Aim:To present the effect of birth and rearing type on lamb performanceDescription: Birth type (single, twin, triplet or quadruplet) and rearing type (i.e., how many lambs are reared by a ewe) effect...
