Question: I have just started pig farming and have 5 young females, 6 months old, and a 9 month old boar. I don’t know very much about pigs and I would like to know some figures related to pig breeding. I read that females should be 8 months old and…
Question: I know how to care for the newborn calf or lamb, but what must be done to ensure the cow or ewe gets pregnant again after calving or lambing? First of all, small-scale farmers have to remember that the number of calves or lambs born is the most important…
Question: How can I tell if my goats are pregnant? The only completely reliable and practical test today is ultrasonic scanning. The machine has a handset (probe), which is held against the goat’s belly near her udder. It emits very high-pitched sounds that cannot be heard by humans, but these…
