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Truckers And Marts Urged Not To Accept High-Risk Cattle

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The days are ending for making a few bucks by shipping high-risk old, thin or arthritic beef and dairy cattle. Darren Malchow, a health-of- animals insector for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency in Lethbridge, said the cattle industry is sending the message to all levels that the quality of animals being sent to market is
Livestock

Bernie PeetPeet On Pigs – for Oct. 21, 2010

Feeding sows ad lib during lactation results in higher feed intake, boosting piglet weaning weights and improving reproductive performance in the subsequent parity, says Dr. Malachy Young, a nutritionist with Gowans Feed Consulting. “Advances in litter size and changes in the sow’s genetics have created new challenges in feeding lactating sows, which generally have lower
Hogs, Livestock

Feeding Sows Ad Lib Boosts Piglet Weaning Weights

Bernie Peet is president of Pork Chain Consulting Ltd. of Lacombe, Alberta, and editor of Western Hog Journal. His columns will run every second week in the Manitoba Co-operator. Young’s own research (Table 1) showed that more than four per cent of all sows ate less than four kg and 17.5 per cent ate less
Beef cattle, Livestock, News

Alberta Reaches Compromise On Checkoff War

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Acompromise on the controversial elimination of a mandatory Alberta cattle checkoff will help restore lost funding for Canada’s financially squeezed beef agencies. Alberta’s two biggest cattle associations have negotiated a three-year agreement to bring back a national checkoff on live cattle sales in the province. The deal will restore $1 of the previously mandatory $3-a-head
Country Crossroads, Livestock

Balmoral Man Carves Works Of Art

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Having to use a cane for support can sometimes be viewed as a sign of fragility, but in the herding dog trial world, the prize of a cane is viewed as a badge of accomplishment. Here in Manitoba we are blessed with a very talented carver of horn canes – Graeme MacKendrick of Balmoral, Manitoba.
Livestock

“Cow Chip” To Track Brazilian Cattle

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Years after India broke into the high-tech business with information technology and China by way of manufacturing, Brazil may find its entrance in an unusual place – a cow’s ear. The South American giant is preparing to use its first locally designed microchip in cattle earrings, a device that could eventually help authorities crack down
Livestock

Hay Made (And Grass Grazed) While Sun Shines

Ca t t l e marketings by producers in Manitoba varied widely across the province during the week ended Oct. 1, with deliveries associated with the weather conditions. Prices for the cattle marketed generally held steady. “Marketings really came down to the area of the province and whether conditions were conducive for harvest operations,” said
Livestock, Other livestock

New Animal Health Degree Offered

The University of Alberta is offering a new degree program designed to provide students an opportunity to enter a variety of careers in animal health. Traditionally dominated by veterinary medicine, careers related to animal health and services are opening up in new directions, and the university’s new bachelor of science in animal health is designed
Beef cattle, Livestock

Information Key To Giving Feedlots What They Want

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Henry Rosing is a straight-ahead commodity beef producer. He’s not hormone free. He’s not organic or natural. He doesn’t differentiate his beef as a specialty product. He doesn’t supply niche markets. Yet his production methods are such that feedlot buyers in Eastern Canada are willing to pay in the top end of the price range
Livestock, News

Downed Animal Transport Now Forbidden

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It’s now illegal to ship a “downer” animal to sale or slaughter in Manitoba. The Animal Care Amendment Act proclaimed last week prohibits the loading and transportation of animals not fit to travel. The new law fills a gap created by the federal Health of Animals Act, which also prohibits transporting downers. That law only

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