Dave Midgley shares ideas on how to construct your own water troughs based on what he has seen over many years of visiting farms. Farmers often tend to focus on providing quality feed and overlook the importance of water in a ruminant diet. With sheep, the voluntary consumption of water…
Dr . Dave Midgley, stock health expert and farmer, shares inventive, practical ideas for designing feeding troughs, which he has seen over many years of visiting farms. It’s not only what you feed animals that are important when it comes to livestock production, but also how you feed them. Dung…
Farmers are known for their ability to give old diesel tanks many new guises in a variety of innovative ways. Mr Hannes Esterhuyse has done just that, making water troughs using rings cut from an old diesel tank. Hannes, a sheep farmer in the South African Karoo-desert, has designed and…
Eddie Steenkamp who farms sheep, near Hopefield in South Africa, needed a feeding system that could be operated without help over weekends. He prefers to use pelleted, nutritionally balanced feed to finish sheep and get them ready for the market. “The most practical thing was to feed pellets from self-feeders.…
The herd of bushbuck of Mr. Werner Nel of Brits never go hungry. As he says: Their stomachs should be full, 24 hours a day. But in the summer sowing areas, winter grass isn’t worth much when it comes to nutrition and then licks or additional feed needs to be…
With this feeder plan, mr. CA van Niekerk can easily creep feed up to 26 lambs. CA, from the Northern Cape in South Africa, came up with this clever plan to easily and effectively feed his lambs without worrying about the ewes stealing the lambs’ feed. He used blue PVC pipes…
Using old tyres and corrugated sheets, a farmer assembled a handy feeding trough. After folding the corrugated sheet through the tyre, fasten the tyre securely to the fence at the right height for the sheep, or goats, to feed comfortably. “You can even bury the tyres in sandy soil so…
