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16 Smallscale poultry keeping brooding and rearing chickens Gerry Bolla Former Livestock Officer Poultry Introduction The period from hatching until the chickens no longer require supplementary heat is called the brooding period and usually lasts fo. 52 Smallscale poultry keeping feeding Greg Poole Former Livestock Officer Poultry Products Nutrients Fowls have a simple digestive tract like humans and therefore eat similar food such as cereals and meat Their food is composed of a number of nutrie It is due to the equatorial regions moving faster than the polar regions as the earth rotates The net result of the Coriolis force is that in the outhern hemisphere winds around low pressure systems or cyclones move clockwise and winds around high p 127 Cabbage growing Jim Murison Former District Horticulturist Tony Napier District Horticulturist Vegetables Intensive Industries Development Yanco Introduction Cabbages belong to the Cruciferae family and are related to turnips cauliflowers and bru This Primefact shows how the introduction of the NLIS has provided beef producers with a means of obtaining and utilising individual carcase feedback from processors Why carcase information is important It is becoming increasingly important for beef 716 Visual and manual assessment of fatness in cattle Bill McKiernan Research Leader Animal Production Production Research Orange Brian Sundstrom Former Cattle Breeding Coordinator Introduction Accurate assessment of cattle for fatness has many uses Scoring sheep for fleece rot William Murray Project Officer, e-Sheep, Rural Innovation, Trangie Dr Suzanne Mortimer Livestock Research Officer, Rural Innovation, Trangie Flystrike is a major probl East NSW November 2013 , Primefact 1327 , first edition Fisheries Ecosystems Unit, Port Stephens Fisheries Institute I ntroduction North e ast NSW is home to several species of freshwater crayfish, Bloat Dr Sarah Robson Regional Animal Health Leader, Animal & Plant Biosecurity, Wagga Wagga What is bloat? Bloat is a risk when animals are grazing young, lush pasture, particularly if the pasture Dung beetles – working for you Sally Spence Technical Specialist Farm Product Integrity, Animal & Plant Biosecurity, Orange Introduction By rapidly burying dung pads, dung beetles reduce fly b Muscle scoring beef cattle Bill McKiernan Research Leader Animal Production, Production Introduction the most valuable part of the carcase. To help identify the red meat content in cattle, a method Pastures for horses Hugh Allan Former District Agronomist Rod Hoare Former State Equine Veterinary Officer Carol Rose District Agronomist, Extensive Industries Development, Kempsey Introduction Understanding weather – fronts, troughs and ridges Paul Carberry Advisory Officer Climatology, Extensive Industries Development, Tamworth Fronts A front is the boundary between two air masses a department store model, a coupon for 10% off. Must sacred always require the profane? And the liminal the ordinary? I am in love with these bodies these forms and their spines