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 →
Newsletter No. 95- Item 2 In January 2011 the FAO sent the WOA a questionnaire asking if the WOA had a Global Plan of Action for Animal Genetic Resources and if so for information on that plan. The document was … 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 →
Newsletter No: 94 This is the title of an article that can be viewed at the Pig Site. It references a new series of ‘Knowledge Transfer Bulletins’ from BPEX. The topic covers an extremely important aspect of livestock production and … Continue reading →
Newsletter No. 93 This newsletter (December 2010) covered the sad news of the death of Steve Warrington, the founder of Ostriches on Line. Steve visited the farm and was taking the photo below as these chicks were clearly showing black … Continue reading →
Newsletter No. 93 Pars Reform, the incubator company, has an interesting document entitled “Genetic Progress Inspires Changes in Incubation Technology”. Reading it, it is important to remember that the progress in poultry production is a direct result of the very … Continue reading →
