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Tools and Fact Sheets
for Smallstock Development

 
Feed and Fodder Resources
Animal Husbandry
Animal Health
Nutrition and Health Interactions
Dissemination of Information and Education
Goats
Sheep
Poultry
Rabbits
Goats Impact and Control of Disease in Tethered Goats
  Tethering management of small ruminants
 

Improved Productivity in Goats: Enhancing the performance of goats
through feed supplementation and deworming by use of locally available products

  Feed supplementation for improving the productivity in goats
  Deworming for improving the productivity in goats
  How to estimate the age of goats and sheep
 

Increased Milk Production in Native Goats:
Improving human welfare from milk from Malawi native goats

  Farmers Dairy Goat Production Handbook (FARM-Africa, 2003)

Sheep

Helping lambs to control stomach worms before they get sick

  How to estimate the age of goats and sheep

Poultry Use of Appropriate Low Cost Rations for Improved Poultry Production
  Formulating rations not containing cereals for poultry
  Improving the Feed Management of Indigenous Domestic Fowl
  Improving the Health of Scavenging Poultry
  Poultry Housing
  Storage of eggs to improve hatchability: A cartoon booklet providing explanation of a simple technique for Storage eggs to improve hatchability
  Candling of eggs to improve assessment of hatchability: A cartoon booklet providing explanation of a simple technique for early
detection of infertile eggs

Rabbits Rabbit technology for warm climates
  The rabbit as a producer of meat and skins in developing countries

Feed and Fodder Resources Conserving Forage for smallholder milk production.
Box-Baling: CUT COSTS OF FEEDING STOVER
  Improving the quality of cereal stovers and straws for livestock feed
  Influences on Nutritive Value of Cereal Crop Residues
  Making Hay
  Making Silage
  Legume Leaf Meal
  Little Bag Silage, or silage making on a small-scale
  Urea and Urea-Molasses Blocks (UMB) including ingredients and procedures for making UMB
  Easing Seasonal Feed Scarcity for Goats in Semi-Arid India through a Process of Participatory Research
  Benefits of Storing Fibrous Feed Residues for Ruminant Livestock – and Human Health
  Feed supplementation for improving the productivity in goats
  Detection of anti-nutritive compounds in tree fodders from India using the brine shrimp bioassay method
  Tree Fodders for Livestock on Smallholder Farms
  Use of a Prosopis juliflora pods/Barley supplement to improve the reproductive performance of does

The Forestry Research Programme (FRP) of the UK Government's Department for International Development (DFID) has supported HDRA in research and development projects on Prosopis trees for drylands and the people who live there. Some of these outputs are made available here:
 
  • Developing Prosopis as a valuable resource for dry zones
 
  • Exploiting the value of Prosopis for dryland forestry and agroforestry systems. (A briefing paper for agencies concerned with international research and development).
 
  • Prosopis juliflora (vilayati babul) in the drylands of India: develop this valuable resource – don't eradicate it. (A briefing paper for the Government of India, state governments and concerned ministries).
 
  • Prosopis (mesquite, algarrobo): invasive weed or valuable forest resource? (A briefing paper for local, national and international bodies responsible for natural resource management in arid and semi-arid regions experiencing invasions of weedy Prosopis).

Animal Husbandry Techniques for Condition Scoring
Condition Scoring of Sheep
Body Condition Scoring in Goats

A guide to condition scoring of Zebu cattle

The development of decision support tools for restocking projects.
[View the document, or go to this project]
Grazing management for worm control
  Tail Docking in Sheep
  Improved Animal Breeding
  Housing, Fencing and Tethering
  Management of Manure

Animal Health The Livestock and Poverty Assessment Methodology: A toolkit for practitioners. [View the document, or go to this project]
Deworming for improving the productivity in goats
  FAMACHA© Information Guide
  A series of Fact Sheets and Notes made available by the Department of Agriculture, Government of Western Australia.
 
  • Farmnote 51/2002. Sheep Worm Control in Western Australia
 
  • Farmnote 57/2002. Sheep worms: Barber's pole worm. (Haemonchus contortus)
 
  • Farmnote 53/2002. Sheep worms: breeding worm resistant sheep
 
  • Farmnote 54/2002. Sheep worms: faecal worm egg counts
 
  • Farmnote 55/2002. Sheep worms: testing drench resistance and effectiveness
 
  • Factsheet 3/2002. Sheep worms: quarantine drench to combat resistance
 
  • Factsheet 4/2002. Sheep worms: 'summer-autumn' worm control

Nutrition & Health Interactions

Extra Feeding or Trypanosomosis Control? Controlling trypanosomosis in Sheep & Goats can be more important than extra feeding

Best feeding practices to help animals fight Trypanosomosis
A Decision Tree that helps counter the threat of Trypanosomosis. Alternative management approaches to the control of trypanosomosis and optimization of production in Trypanotolerant cattle

Helping lambs to control stomach worms before they get sick

Feeding tree fodder to beat liver fluke
Farmers can use Tannins to kill parasitic worms
  Do dietary tannins (polyphenolics) affect the susceptibility of ruminants to parasitic infection?
 

Improved Productivity in Goats: Enhancing the performance of goats
through feed supplementation and deworming by use of locally available products

  Deworming for improving the productivity in goats
  Improving the Performance of Trypanosome-Infected Smallstock
  Sensible use of drugs and feeding to stop roundworms killing sheep & goats
  The Interaction Between Nutrition and Genetic Resistance to Parasitic Diseases

Dissemination of Information and Education Tools for Finding Out: Enquiry & Discovery
Tools for Communicating
Using Cartoon-style booklets to communicate technical messages on livestock production and animal health of cattle, and small livestock species such as goats, rabbits and bees, which can provide income and nutrition for poorer families. Wambui and similar Cartoon booklets.
  Radio: Getting the Message Across