Switch laying hens to a complete chicken layer feed when they start laying eggs around 18 weeks of age. Choose a complete layer feed that includes all the essential nutrients...
Fuel prices are high but horse owners continue to haul down the road; they may be eating peanut butter sandwiches, but they are still fueling up, loading up and hauling to shows. ...
The quality of a ewe’s milk directly correlates to the nutrition and mineral fed before and after lambing. Grazing or feeding high-quality stored forages and supplementing the...
During the first seven or eight months of gestation, the fetus grows very slowly (approximately 0.2 lbs per day) so early pregnancy does not present much of a nutritional challenge to...
Sarah Breuer is the Lifestyle Feed Specialist at Country Visions Cooperative. During her 14-year employment, Sarah’s role has consisted of on-farm animal nutrition consultations with producers on their production operations of dairy cattle, beef cattle, market/show livestock, horses, small livestock, and also companion animals. Sarah has been a leader in directing feeding trials, feed and forage nutrition testing, and conducting educational events/meetings to bring information to producers. Sarah holds a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Dairy Science and Soil Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Sarah and her husband, Brant, live in Marytown with their two daughters, Elizabeth (5) and Lydia (4). In her spare time, Sarah loves to do activities with her family such as fishing and snowmobiling, painting ceramics, farming with her family, and caring for her flock of over 75 chickens.