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Occasionally predators take our livestock. This is a real challenge of living on a homestead with livestock. What kind of predators do you face? How do you handle it? SUBSCRIBE for inspiration in...
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- Daddykirbs Farm
In this video, we’re joined by Community Engagement Ranger, Gemma and local good boy, Chester. They show us how to safely enjoy the countryside around livest...
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How to keep your animals and livestock safe and warm during cold and freezing weather! Should use a heat lamp on full size chickens? Will hay keep rabbits sa...
- Start Here: Husbandry and Management Changes
- Livestock Guardian Animals
- Fencing
This is the first and best thing you can do: adopt practices that reduce livestock exposure to predators.
Of the guardian animals, dogs seem to be most effective at providing protection from a wide range of predators across all operation sizes. When properly raised, they can reduce or eliminate predation, and even help with weight gain as stock is less stressed and more comfortable grazing. But not all puppies grow up to be guardian dogs, and improperl...
Adult coyotes can squeeze through a 4-by-6 inch opening in woven wire, and can climb or jump fences that are less than 66 inches in height. This means that making a predator proof fence is difficult. Some ranchers have found success by adding electrified top and trip wires. Others have increased the number of wires in their fence and electrified th...
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- The Floating Object. Just as a river rarely freezes compared to a lake, moving water stays liquid longer. How can we use that to our advantage without leaving a hose running all night long?
- The Salt Water Bottle. An old cowboy trick is to fill milk jugs, or other sealed plastic containers, with salt water and place a few in the stock tank.
- The Insulated Side Walls. Insulating the sides of our water tanks can keep them warmer which delays or prevents freezing. How does this work? Heat is lost from your horses’ water to the surrounding atmosphere primarily via the principle of conduction.
- The Floating Lid. This is the same principle as putting on a hat to keep from losing heat from the top of your head. You can do this with your horse’s water by using a floating piece of foam the size and shape of your vessel to insulate the surface of the water from direct contact with the air, which prevents heat loss much like a pool cover.
Oct 23, 2017 · Keep your cattle, pigs, goats, sheep and chickens safe from threats by various predators with these tried-and-tested techniques.
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Jan 25, 2018 · Frozen water troughs make winter chores a pain- but even if you don’t have electric heaters, you can keep your livestock troughs thawed all winter. I’ll show you how! When winter temperatures close in and temperatures drop, keeping horse troughs and water buckets from icing over can be a challenge.
