Livestock keepers need to be able to identify poisonous plants for livestock. It is important to know what is dangerous for sheep, goats and cattle […]
Month: November 2021
Choosing The Best Chickens For Eggs
When starting an egg production project, whether as a home-grower or as a commercial producer, it is important you start with the best chickens for […]
How To Introduce New Chickens To Your Flock
Introducing new chickens to an already established flock will need careful handling. But before you deal with this, the first step is quarantining the new […]
Egg Production: How Does An Egg Form?
When wanting to learn about egg production, it is important one understands the basic mechanics of how an egg is actually formed first before you […]
Establish A Recycling Depot On Your Plot
Starting a recycling depot on your smallholding may meet a number of needs. Most of us are quite willing to do our bit for the […]
Keeping A Cow For Milk
There is much that a smallholder should consider when keeping a cow for milk. Consider the whole process of keeping a cow in milk. The […]
Keeping Cattle: Preliminary Considerations
Why keep a cow on a plot? Unless you have plenty of land with good grazing and adequate water, some good outbuildings, some experience with […]
How to Preserve Artichokes
Smallholders can consider themselves lucky if they need to know how to preserve artichokes. For, as we wrote about on page in the November edition […]
Plant Disease And Your Vegetables
Diseases on your vegetables can cause loss of yield and damage to vegetables, which reduce the quality of your harvest. With warmer weather most smallholders […]
Nguni Cattle: A Good Option For Your Plot
Smallholders with a larger than usual piece of land, who are looking to keep cattle, would do well to consider keeping nguni cattle. The group […]