Beef Farming Tips on Supplementary Feeding of Sheep and Beef Cattle,
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   Supplementary Feeding of Sheep and Beef Cattle

This book is a practical guide and tool designed for graziers to use in their day-to-day decision making about livestock health, nutritional needs and condition scoring. Pasture supplements are expensive and should not be wasted, yet under-nutrition has an even greater economic affect resulting from low conception and progeny survival rates, poor growth rates, failure to meet market targets and tender fleeces in sheep. This book shows how to get the nutritional balance right and avoid costly repercussions from incorrect feeding methods. It will be a very useful book in drought situations, but also in seasonal pasture shortages, such as winter and late summer when the nutrient value of pastures is low. The book also includes tables and worksheets so that livestock producers can make timely and cost effective decisions about supplementary feeding. The book is designed specifically for the sheep and beef cattle grazing industries and addresses the issues of nutrition and the need to supplement pasture with other forms of feed. While many of the principles apply to the feedlot situations this book does not attempt to cover all the issues involved in intensive feedlotting. This book is written especially for sheep and cattle graziers. Ready Reckoner Tables and Calculation sheets make it easy to calculate rations. It is well illustrated with explanatory photographs, and presents the key aspects of nutrition and supplementary feeding in a readily understandable way.