The World Ostrich Association was formed in September, 2002. The 100th edition of the newsletter was first published in July 2011. It reported, with regret, that the industry continued to witness slow development in production when demand for our products … Continue reading →
When a farmer is selling to a processor it is essential that the payment structure rewards quality birds and penalises poor quality birds with minimal meat yield as the cost of processing these poor quality birds are significantly higher. Poor … Continue reading →
Body condition is a visual and subjective assessment which comes naturally to stockmen/women. Good body condition is achieved by a combination of the nutritional program, management and the environment. With ostrich, there remains a lack of experience on how to fully recognise … Continue reading →
Over the years the WOA directors have emphasised the important role of improving the genetic stock as one of the management factors to achieving improved commercial levels of production. Recently we received a comment that those interested in ostrich farming … Continue reading →
The Veterinary Health Plan discussed earlier introduced the Five Freedoms as an important component of the plan. As a reminder the Five Freedoms are the same across all species and are: Freedom from hunger and thirst – By ready access … Continue reading →
Recently we discussed comparative growth curves published for ostrich and how they illustrate a lack of will to investigate reasons for potential to improve current performance. When viewed in the backdrop of the Klein Karoo Kooperasie (KKK) wishing to contain … Continue reading →
This question was recently received: “So far I have been using standard growth curve of ostrich from the data of Cilliers and Van Schalkwyk, 1994. If you have any better standard ostrich growth curve, please let me know.” We pointed … Continue reading →
Over the past few years the South African Ostrich Industry has experienced a number of outbreaks of Avian Influenza in ostrich which has blocked their ability to export ostrich meat, fertile eggs and livestock. Over the years of our newsletters, … Continue reading →
Newsletter No. 95 Item 3 A speaker from the Klein Karoo Kooperasie (KKK) discussed a value pyramid during a presentation at The International Industry Strategic Analysis held in 1999 and reported here. The speaker was suggesting that it was important … Continue reading →
This article discussed Food Particle Size and the use of the Bygholm Sieve as a tool to evaluate the accuracy of the particle size. The importance of particle size is as important with ostrich production as it is with pig … Continue reading →
