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Critical things you need to do in the first 24 hours after a calf is born
A calf is tomorrow’s cow. From the health point of view, the life of a bovine is divided into two parts; the first 24 hours, and the rest. The first…
A Complete Simple Guide On How To Buy A Good Bull Breed At An Auction
The days of buying bulls based purely on their functional appearance are over. Yes, of course, functional efficiency is crucial, but what is equally important is a buyer’s knowledge of…
A Super Dairy Breed That Adopts Well To Arid And Semi-Arid Lands Introduced In Kenya
The Kenya Agricultural Livestock and Research Organisation (Kalro) has introduced a superior breed of cows with the aim of boosting the production of milk in arid and semi-arid lands (Asal)…
Precautions To Help You Unlock Success To Dairy Farming
Investing in dairy farming ought to be done cautiously in order to optimise efficiency of available farm resources, or, simply put, to help you do more with less. Taking precaution…
How You Can Make That Small Dairy Farm A Model Farm
Initially, most dairy farms only focused on maintaining healthy cows by proper feeding and disease-control, routine milking and getting calves for future generation. However, this is changing as nowadays, building…
The Business of Dairy Farming – A Case for the Modern Dairy Farmer
Most people are aware that dairy farming in Kenya bears little resemblance to yesteryears. As with other forms of livestock farming, such as poultry farming, beef production and crop farming…
Causes and detection of abortion in cows
Cows can suffer abnormalities during pregnancy leading to death of the foetus or resulting from foetal or maternal abnormality. Abortion in dairy cattle is the loss of a foetus between…
Milking a fortune from dairy self-help group – Success story of Kuresoi Dairy Farmers
When 70 dairy farmers formed a self-help group in 2014 little did they know that a few years down the line they would be running a thriving agribusiness. The farmers…
How is dairy farming in Kenya? Here is a complete guide on dairy farming in Kenya
I know this question runs through the minds of many who have agriculture at heart in Kenya, East Africa, and even the entire Africa at large. For an industry that…
Why twining occur in dairy cows, advantages and danger
Twinning is especially a good thing for animals that are traditionally uniparous. Twining is a factor of genetics but hormonal treatment can trigger it. Similarly, it can happen when reproduction…