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G84-711 Managing The Home Goose Breeder Flock, Earl W. Gleaves
G84-711 Managing The Home Goose Breeder Flock, Earl W. Gleaves
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials
This NebGuide provides basic information on breed selection, sexing, housing and equipment needed, feeding, breeding, egg care and incubation for the home goose flock.
The goose has been almost completely ignored in the rapid technical developments that have occurred in other parts of the poultry industry in the past 25 years. Experimental work with the domestic goose has been very limited. This means that management recommendations that are pertinent today may not be in the future.
G84-713 Brooding And Rearing The Home Goose Flock, Earl W. Gleaves
G84-713 Brooding And Rearing The Home Goose Flock, Earl W. Gleaves
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials
This NebGuide discusses brooding and rearing small geese flocks, including feeding from starter to growing and finishing on pasture, and slaughter, cleaning and processing procedures.
Goose growers in general have not been caught up in the ultra- efficient feed utilization trends that have developed in other parts of the poultry meat industry. This may be due to of the fact that the geese are good foragers. Understandably, growers have concluded that a considerable saving in prepared feeds can be achieved by rearing the birds on pasture. Even without special foods, the goose is more rapid growing than other domestic species …
G84-738 Management To Minimize Hay Waste, Bruce Anderson, Terry L. Mader
G84-738 Management To Minimize Hay Waste, Bruce Anderson, Terry L. Mader
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials
This NebGuide discusses harvest factors that affect hay yield and quality as well as ways to reduce losses during harvest, storage, and feeding.
Hay is harvested, stored, and fed under a wide variety of conditions that influence both its yield and feed value. High quality hay is needed by animals that require high nutrient concentrations to reach desired levels of production. These include dairy cows, finishing beef cattle, fattening lambs, and race horses. Excellent hay management is required to produce the hay needed by these livestock. High quality hay is also used as a supplement to lower quality forages, such …
G84-696 Small Grains For Silage Or Hay, Paul Q. Guyer, Terry L. Mader
G84-696 Small Grains For Silage Or Hay, Paul Q. Guyer, Terry L. Mader
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials
This NebGuide discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using small grains for silage or hay, including handling, storage, feeding, animal performance, and nitrate toxicity potential.
Small grain crops are potentially important sources of high quality forage. Harvesting small grains for hay or silage rather than as grain may mean increased dollar returns per acre. Small grain silage or hay represents more total nutrient production per acre than harvest as grain and, when fed to ruminants, results in increased animal production.
G84-716 Management Of The Weanling Calf, Paul Q. Guyer, Donald B. Hudson
G84-716 Management Of The Weanling Calf, Paul Q. Guyer, Donald B. Hudson
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials
This NebGuide outlines a program for preventing sickness and death losses in newly weaned calves, including stress prevention, vaccinations, nutrition, and treatment of sick calves.
Sickness and death loss following weaning robs both calf producers and cattle feeders of potential profits. The weanling calf has not acquired adequate immunity to the variety of diseases that plague the beef industry. At weaning and/or shipping, the calf is usually subjected to various stresses, in addition to being separated from its mother, that contribute to disease outbreaks. A program for minimizing weight loss, sickness, and death in newly weaned calves should include: 1) …