Animal Nutrition & Handling / Pasture Management
Product Description
Description
Live animal assessment – muscle and fat – why does it matter?
Video: Yield grades of beef cattle
How to increase saleable meat yield in a beef herd – impact of breeding/ genetics
Sheep reproduction
o Critical live weight for joining
o Ewe fat score – why does it matter?
o Fat scoring theory (Primefact handout)
Live animal assessment
o   Fat scoring
o   Muscle scoring
Breeding vs trading
o   Economic comparison – how do they stack up?
o   Breeding vs trading: pros and cons
o   Cross-breeding/ terminal herds
Matching stocking rate to carrying capacity
o   Overview of key factors that determine stocking rate (environment, soil type/depth, pasture species, fertiliser)
o   Impact of fertiliser on pasture growth, legume content and carrying capacity (Bookham and Laggan field data)
Pasture Walk
o  Assessing Pasture Quantity (demo)
o  ACTIVITY: set up 4 labelled quads with kg DM/ha. Set up 4 blank quads and get participants to put a number on it.
o  Assessing Pasture Quality –discussion around key factors that influence pasture quality/digestibility
o   Pasture benchmarks – how to use them to make proactive grazing decisions
Nutrition requirements of livestock
o  Discuss Energy and Protein requirements
o   Drought feed calculator - 2 scenarios + practical exercise on how to calculate feed requirements
Delivered by
Greg Meaker - As a former Livestock Officer at the Department of Primary Industries, Greg spent years as an educator in beef cattle husbandry and management. Now he puts all that knowledge into practice, as the owner manager of two working properties in the Gunning district. His extensive experience in these two connected worlds makes him the perfect delivery partner for our animal handling programs.
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Details
Bookings available all year, Monday – Friday.
Sheep handling skills in the yards
Practical – SHEEP
Practical – CATTLE
Live animal assessment
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Animal Nutrition & Handling / Pasture Management
Bookings available all year, Monday – Friday.
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