Large Stock Management Activities: October

First week:

• Windhoek Agriculture Show
• Second African Horse Sickness vaccination (3 weeks after first vaccination)

Second week:

• Start of Calving Season for Cows 
• Maintain additional feeding (enerfeed, Albida pods etc) to cows and heifers in order to maintain or improve body condition (body condition score 3-4)
• Continue with Protein & Mineral supplementation (Winter lick). Be careful of urea poisoning with early rains. Remove or cover lick containers with early rain.  

Third week:

• Submit birth notices for calves(stud animals) and maintain and update calve register for commercial producers.
• Order Chlamydioses vaccine. Read more about Chlamydioses at: https://www.box.net/s/g0jl3522l52x6ah9lq3q

Fourth week:

• Weigh all animals for biomass and post birth weight/mass of cows that calved
• Take manure samples
• Send manure samples to lab
• De-horn calves
• Selection of replacement heifers and cows for upcoming mating season
• Culling of unproductive cows and heifers not selected for mating
• Additional feeding to condition culled animals for market

May + June Management Activities: http://agrialert.blogspot.com/2012/06/livestock-management-activities-may.html

July Management Activities: http://agrialert.blogspot.com/2011/07/livestock-management-activities-for.html

August Management Activities: http://agrialert.blogspot.com/2012/08/large-stock-management-activities-august.html

September Management Activities: http://agrialert.blogspot.com/2012/08/large-stock-management-activities-for.html