Farmers and ranchers in this area may be instructed during an accident to put their animals in barns and use stored feed instead of allowing them to graze.
Butter from cows that are eating dry, stored feed during the winter may not contain enough beta-carotene for proper colouring, as it does when cows are pasture-fed.
However, key informants underlined that the stored feed was mainly supplied by both governmental and non-governmental organizations during critical periods of drought as coping strategies.
The results indicate a typical system of smallholder livestock production with heavy reliance on cereal by-products, a mix of livestock species and a relative scarcity of stored feed resources relative to overall livestock holdings.
Horses accidentally getting into stored feed and eating too much at one time is a common but preventable way that horses develop colic or laminitis.
In addition, if stored feed was present in a bin, the pad was drawn across the top layer to collect more material.
Many of these decrepit silos, once used to store feed for livestock, now just hollow columns of cinder blocks, have through happenstance transformed into unlikely nurseries for trees.
Herders can control feed costs by maximizing the use of pasture, producing their own harvested feeds, buying and storing feed in bulk, and minimizing feed wastage.
Some measures that farmers take in bovine TB hotspots include raising feed and water troughs off the ground, trying not to feed cattle directly on the ground, ensuring doors to feed sheds fit well and are kept shut at night, storing feed in covered bins and fencing off badger setts and latrines.
It is unlawful to hunt waterfowl over areas where farmers store feed for their animals or locations where they put grain out to feed.
