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Choosing the Right Home Fresh® Chicken Feed
Home Fresh® Chicken Feeds give your flock the foundation to grow and thrive, while ensuring a lifetime of balanced nutrition. Our nutritionists have precisely formulated our poultry feeds to provide consistent quality in every bag. Finding the right Home Fresh chicken feed is dependent on the type of chickens you
Selecting the Best Chickens for Your Coop
Before bringing home new feathered friends, it’s important to determine the best chicken breed for your goals, climate and situation. These three steps brought to you by Home Fresh® Chicken and Poultry Feeds will help you decide the best breed for your coop and how to keep them healthy. Step
Kidding Season for Beginners
As a goat owner, understanding kidding season is important whether you have one goat expecting or a whole herd. This is an intense time in life that can result in quite a bit of stress for both the doe and her kids. Ensuring proper care and goat management during this
Molting Season: Getting all Feathered Up for Winter
The arrival of fall is marked by shorter days, and shorter days means less daylight. That reduced daylight triggers the annual molt in backyard chicken flocks. Each fall, starting when chickens are about 18 months old, they will lose their feathers and grow nice, shiny new ones in preparation for
The Benefits of Omega in Chicken Feed
The presence of omega-3 fatty acids in chicken feed not only benefits a chicken’s well-being, but also the egg consumer. By using a chicken feed with higher levels of omega in it, you can improve the health of your flock, while also enhancing the nutritional value of their eggs. How
Cracking Open the Truth About Egg Yolks
Once at the center of the egg, and now at the center of discussion, egg yolks have been quite the topic due to confusion and controversy around their nutritional value. Although eggs are a breakfast favorite, and often a staple in many people’s diets, the yolks have previously been deemed
Considerations for Protein Supplementation
EnergiLass® offers self-fed protein and/or mineral blocks to make supplementing your cattle easy. Here are 5 tips to help make your supplement program work for you.
Preventing, Identifying, and Treating Heat Stress in Chickens
During the hot summer months, heat stress becomes a significant concern for many poultry owners. Chickens have a limited ability to regulate their body temperature, making them highly susceptible to heat stress. They lack sweat glands and rely on just panting to cool down. The most obvious factor leading to
Transform Hoof Health in Beef Cows
Healthy hooves enable your cows and calves to achieve optimal lifetime performance and excel in all stages from reproduction to the feedlot. Feeding the best diet that includes premium trace mineral nutrition optimizes hoof health and helps prevent lameness issues that require costly treatment. Addressing foot rot requires multiple strategies:
The Mineral Encyclopedia – Abridged
Minerals are an ever important, but often forgotten nutrient. Found in most feedstuffs and required in such smaller quantities when compared to other nutrients like water, energy, and protein, it’s easy to not keep them at the front of your nutritional plan. Further difficulty lies in keeping all the minerals,
Setting Beef Cows Up to Produce the Best Colostrum for Calves
Whether you’re raising beef calves as replacement animals for your herd or for the feedlot, the Lifetime Performance® of your calves is influenced on day one. It’s no secret that colostrum plays a critical role in starting beef calves off on the right foot. Calves are born with naked immunity, which
Choosing a Horse Feed to Support a Lifetime of Wellness
You want your horse to have the best life possible, and that starts with the right nutrition. Help ensure your horse’s diet is providing the foundation for a happy, healthy life with feeding goals for each life stage.