Clear guides, straight answers
Answers to what gets asked on the farm, with the numbers and where they come from. Each guide has a calculator to do the arithmetic for your animals.
- Breeding
How long is a cow, a sow or a ewe pregnant?
Gestation length for each species, how to count the due date and what to prepare before it. - Handling
How to weigh cattle without a scale
How to tape the heart girth and body length, and how accurate the result is. - Feeding
How much does a cow eat per day?
Dry matter, fresh forage and water: what a cow needs for her weight and what she produces. - Poultry
How many eggs does a hen lay?
Laying per day, per year and by age, and what makes a hen stop laying. - Grazing
How many cows per hectare?
What stocking rate is, how to work it out from your pasture yield and why overgrazing costs money.