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Planning Your Garden

Looking to grow your own food and enjoy the rewards of a flourishing garden? You're in the right place. January marks the perfect time of year to start planning and getting everything ready. Whether it's your first time starting a garden or you're a seasoned green thumb, there are a...

Raising Chicks 4-5 Week Old

Raising Chicks 4-5 Week Old Your babies are growing up! By weeks four and five, you begin noticing that your chicks’ fluffy appearance slowly disappears. Their fuzzy down is replaced with feathers of a mature bird. Chicks will usually be fully feathered by 5 to 6 weeks of age. You...

Winter Nutrition for your Cattle

Winter Nutrition for your Cattle : Taking shortcuts on your cattle nutrition during the winter months could risk next year’s calf crop, this year’s weaning weights and the long-term viability of your herd. According to information from university of Minnesota extension beef experts, winter feeding programs vary for each cattle...

Winter Horse Care Tips

Winter Horse Care Tips: Now that winter is approaching and the temperature is dropping, horse owners need to consider how to winterize their horse. Keeping your horse healthy during the winter months is easy with these Winter Horse Care Tips. During the cold season, horse owners must make sure that...

Meet New Livestock Product Specialist Ramiro Gonzalez

Meet New Livestock Product Specialist Ramiro Gonzalez: Are you in the rodeo circuit or just passionate about livestock in Texas? Then you're in for a treat! Pasturas is proud to introduce Ramiro Gonzalez, the latest addition to our Mansfield, Texas store. Ramiro is also an international team roper for American...

Three Tips To Help Molting Chickens

It’s autumn. Time for comfy sweaters, pumpkin-flavored everything, and… vacation? For backyard chickens across the country, shorter days often signal time for a break. Birds may stop laying eggs, lose old feathers and grow new ones. This annual vacation from egg laying is called molt. Read our Three Tips to...

Fall Cow-Calf Management Reminders

Fall Cow-Calf Management Reminders: October • Beginning in late October or November, provide supplemental feed for bulls on dry grass according to age and condition. • Evaluate cows’ body condition score (BCS) at weaning.  Develop winter nutrition program to have cows at a BCS of six at calving to enhance...

Fall is Prime Time to Begin a Supplemental Feeding Program for Deer

Fall is Prime Time to Begin a Supplemental Feeding Program for Deer: A buck can have the best genetics in the world, but without the proper nutrition, he’ll never achieve his potential. One way to stack the deck in his favor is to supplement his nutrition. Fall is an excellent...