Question: How safe is it to eat meat from animals that have been treated with hormones? Just as H₂O (better known as water) is essential to almost all forms of life, so hormones occur naturally in varying quantities in all living organisms, including vegetables, fruit, grains and oils extracted from…
Question: Can livestock that died due to a disease be eaten by people? There are some diseases that only affect livestock or a specific type of livestock, for example foot and mouth disease that only affect cloven hoofed livestock. But then there are also many diseases like Rift Valley fever…
Question: What are the advantages and disadvantages of different castration methods in calves? Bull calves have to be castrated as soon as possible and before reaching an age of two months. Different methods can be used. The purpose of castration is: To ensure the bull calves can’t breed or reproduce.…
Farmers, it is always good to learn from how other farmers are doing it, like this farmer who farms meat chickens. Other farmers are not necessarily right in the way they are doing their business, but they are doing it the way that work best for them, and that is…
In one year, Corlette Grobler’s hobby of keeping a few quails grew into a multifaceted quail egg and meat enterprise that today is a top South African producer. When you mention quail, most people think of the Old Testament story of how the Israelite nation was saved from starvation in…
