Pineapples are a tropical plant with a sweet smelling and sweet edible fruit, indigenous to South America. Pineapples have always been regarded as an expensive fruit due to their difficulty to grow in cold or temperate climates. The plant is a small tough shrub with waxy leaves, and covered sharp spines, to avoid grazing by …
Although it is a misconception to say pigs can eat anything, they are not very fussy eaters and can readily feed on anything. This has given pigs a reputation for being messy animals shunned by some religious sects or people afraid of getting gastric worms. However, this ability to feed on a wide variety of …
Horses and sheep all have the ability to digest high-fiber forages but their digestive systems are quite different. Getting the bulk of their nutrition from grazing forages both on pastures and in the form of silages or hay sheep and horses are in that case quite similar. Sheep, however, digest their fiber mostly in the …
bananas, papayas, and mangoes. Sheep are primarily ruminants feeding predominantly on grass digesting this high-fiber feed with the help of microbes in their rumen. Sheep are not the hardiest of domestic animals and can succumb to a wide variety of ailments and conditions, hence one should take care of what they feed to these animals. …
Lamb is one meat that can be paired well with blueberries to make a delicious combination. One then wonders then if sheep ate blueberries would the meat have a blueberry flavor? Sheep are generally not picky eaters, a predisposition that leads to many digestive disorders and sometimes death. Grass from grazing and hay is the …
Barley is a cereal grain mostly associated with beer brewing, it was one of the first cereals to be domesticated by man, and an estimated 150 million tons of barley is produced every year. However, of the bulk of barley produced worldwide about 65% of it is used for animal feeding as an energy source. …
Feed is the major cost driver in livestock farming, particularly dairy and beef production. The prices of feed have sky rocketed within the last few years to a certain level to some farmers and giving them difficulties in providing the herd with recommended rations. However, peanuts can be used as readily available feedstuff which can …
Sheep can feed on a wide variety of forages but are predominantly grazers, eating grass as their main supply of nutrients. Sheep can utilize grass and other high-fiber forages because sheep are ruminants. Their four-chamber stomachs have bacteria that digest the forage and release volatile fatty acids, vitamins, and other nutrients that the sheep absorb …
Dog food is designed with a bias on supplying high protein food for dogs which are carnivores by nature but due to domestication are now mostly omnivores. Dogs are mostly omnivores due to their association with humans for many millennia and their adjusting to a human-like diet. Dogs can be fed meat and any scraps …
Soymeal is a very important raw material when it comes to feeding pigs providing the bulk of protein in pig feeds globally. Soybean meal is rich in protein at above 43% and in the essential amino acids lysine, threonine, and tryptophan which are deficient in cereal grains. Soymeal can also be an energy source for …
