Sheep/Goats

Farm Direct Marketing Meat - What do you need to know?

A five year annual projection for an existing sheep operation.

The Canada Plan Service is a co-operative provincial network of agricultural engineers, design draftspersons and livestock specialists. It is concerned with the planning, design and construction of modern farm buildings to serve the needs of Canadian agriculture. The Service gathers ideas from across the country and develops these as engineered construction and management recommendations. This makes the latest building technologies and farmstead management practices available to all Canadian farmers

This bulletin is intended to provide ideas, suggestions and alternatives which you may incorporate in your livestock operation to get you through a feed shortage and to plan for the next one.

Estimates the time, machinery and material requirements to build a fence.

A discussion of numerous elements involved in devising an effective grazing management plan, the objective of which is to achieve a sustainable balance between plant and animal requirements.

Producers who raise livestock with the intent of marketing their own meat or processed meat products should give careful consideration to where they will have their livestock slaughtered or meat processed.

To provide a format and a set of guidelines for determining costs of production for meat goat operations.

To provide voluntary inspection of abbattoirs and meat processing plants to help ensure food safety.

Death of animals is a normal occurrence and represents a loss to the operator. Even the best livestock producers will have losses between two and three per cent, but higher rates can occur. There are several options for managing livestock mortalities.

 There has been a renewed interest in constructing and using mobile windbreak fences for winter feeding on pastures and cropland.

(Alfalfa Dehy, Suncure, Grain Screening Pellets, Canola Meal and Pellets)

Can green flax be used for livestock feed? What is prussic acid and how is it formed in green flax? What levels of prussic acid are toxic to livestock? What are the symptoms of prussic acid poisoning? Can harvest and feeding management influence prussic acid levels? Are nitrate levels a concern in feeding flax straw?

Leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula L.) represents a serious threat to the productivity and profitability of many cattle operations and wildlife habitats.

Feed value is an important factor when buying or selling hay. Buyers and sellers require an accurate and effective way of communicating the quality of hay using a method that best describes the feed value to livestock.

Links to various websites relating to sheep and goats.

Sheep have been a part of Saskatchewan's agriculture for more than 150 years, with early settlers bringing breeding stock to harvest the province's vast rangelands.