The dates for this year’s Walkerville Agricultural Show have been fixed. The show will be a Spring Show and will take place at the Walkerville […]
Tag: CRITTERS & WILDLIFE
World’s Ugliest Lawn: “And the winner is….”
Do you lose sleep at the thought that your lawn is less-than-the-perfect expanse of manicured green of a well-kept sports field? Or spend many hours […]
Two New Creepy Crawly Books
Smallholders will find that there are two new creepy crawly books that have been published recently, which will be useful additions to their libraries. We […]
UPDATE: Are RHVD infections slowing?
Although it’s still early days anecdotal evidence tentatively suggests that the rapid spread of the fatal Rabbit Haemmorhagic Viral Disease outbreak throughout southern Africa may […]
UPDATE: Rabbit Haemorrhagic Disease Spreading Fast Countrywide
The killer Rabbit Haemorrhagic Viral Disease (RHD or RHVD) has now been positively identified along the Garden Route and in the Southern and Eastern Cape. […]
UPDATE: Rabbit Disease Spreading Fast in Gauteng
Gauteng’s rabbits, both domestic and wild, continue to become infected with the fatal and highly infectious Rabbit Haemmorhagic Disease (RHD). Confirmed cases Since yesterday, cases […]
Understand Parasites In Equines
Like all livestock, horses and donkeys have external and internal parasites that, if not managed, can cause serious or even fatal organ damage. A parasite […]
Ticks On Livestock: Tick Control And Disease Prevention
For all tick-borne diseases it is prudent to prevent ticks from attaching themselves to your animals. For large herds and flocks the common method of […]
Ticks On Livestock: Types Of Ticks & The Diseases They Carry
Livestock, like all plot animals, are susceptible to external parasites such as ticks, lice and flies, and smallholders with livestock must be aware of these […]
Know Your Plot’s Dung Beetles
Everybody has a mental picture of a dung beetle at work: a tough-looking creature with its back legs on an impossibly large ball of dung […]