Large Stock Management Activities: August

The Annual Livestock Management Calender can be downloaded at: https://www.box.net/shared/7kvs8fceot6x58ojisc1

AUGUST LARGE STOCK MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES

1. First week:  Selection of weaners
2. Second week: Dose horses
3. Third week: 

• Weigh all cattle for biomass
• Selection of bull calves
• Remove heavy pregnant  heifers to separate camp (close to home) with good grazing, supplementary and additional feeding
• Order African  Horse Sickness, Tetanus and Anaplasmosis vaccine 

Continue with Mineral-Protein-(Energy) supplementation with commercial licks like Econo Grass veld lick, Cow/calf lick or Dryveld Concentrate with salt 50:50 mix available at AGRA

Self Mixing of Winter Supplementation (Winter Lick). Mix as follow:

Raw Materials: (available at Agra)
Urea 10%
Molatek or Enerfeed 35%
Salt 49,9%
Futterfos (DCP 18) 5%
Sulphur 0,1%
Total Mix 100%

Nutrients
Protein 292 g/kg with Molatek and 320 g/kg with Enerfeed
Phosphate 9.7 g/kg minimum
Calsuim 12 g/kg minimum
Energy 3.8 MJME/kg minimum
Sulphur 1g/kg minimum

Cost of the lick:
N$ 2327.96/ton or N$116.40/50kg bag with Molatek 
N$2216.15/ton or N$110.81/50kg bag with Enerfeed

Mixing instructions for 1 Ton (20 bags of 50kg) of Winter Supplementation (lick)
Urea 100kg (2x50kg bags)
Molatek 350kg (8.75x40kg bags or Enerfeed 350kg (7x50kg bags)
Salt 499kg (10x50kg bags)
Futterfos 50kg (1x50kg bag)
Sulpur 1kg (1kg Swavet container)
Total Mix: 1000kg 

Feed adlib. Cattle will consume from 150-500 g/day depending on the size of animals (and salt hunger).
Please be aware that the lick contains urea (NPN) and must be mixed and fed strictly according to specifications. For any further enquiries please contact me (Renier Burger) directly at namibiasaf@gmail.com