Browse through our extensive collection of resources on Livestock.
Organic Before Organic Was Cool: Oklahoma Rancher Raises Profits on Pasture
Ranch Management Practices to Improve Water Quality
This Oklahoma Producer Grant project fact sheet describes several practices – including permanent sod, limited-access watering points, and buffer strips – to improve water quality in ponds.
Livestock Watering Systems, Riparian Areas, and Pond Maintenance
Watering Systems for Serious Graziers
This Missouri NRCS publication covers in detail all aspects of water supply for livestock under rotational grazing management.
Watering Systems for Cattle Ponds
This University of Arkansas Extension publication describes two methods of using ponds for watering livestock while limiting direct access: floating fences, and drawing water from ponds.
Alternative Livestock Watering Systems
This University of Tennessee Extension publication discusses the benefits of excluding livestock from streams, and the resultant need to develop alternative means of watering livestock.
Fact Sheet: Grazing Management
This fact sheet summarizes the Kerr Center’s experience with and recommendations for grazing management.
Grazing Management Basics
This presentation covers grazing systems and their benefits, grazing terms and calculations, pasture design, and grazing strategies.
The Ogallala Aquifer
This paper critically examines the impacts of the increasing use of the Ogallala-with specific focus on the situation in the Oklahoma and Texas Panhandle regions, and the possibility of adopting sustainable development practices to curb the increasing aquifer water depletion and deterioration.
The Cattle and Chickens
This intern presentation presents the results of a summer project that investigated multi-species rotational grazing with cattle and pastured laying hens.
The Kerr Center Chicken Tractor 1.0: Description and Parts List
This intern report describes the chicken tractor used in the Kerr Center’s pastured poultry projects from 2009-2010.
Raising Poultry on Forage
This intern report describes organic, free-range, and pastured poultry production systems, and discusses housing and fencing.
Home-Built Goat-Working Pens Diagram
Parasite Control: The Value of Multi-species and Rotational Grazing
This presentation covers ways to use grazing rotations and stocking of multiple livestock species to manage parasites in meat goats.
Pastured Poultry: Raising Chickens in a Grass-Based System
Farm Made: A Guide to On-Farm Processing for Organic Producers
This report provides an overview of the general requirements for organic certification and for food processing facilities, followed by a discussion of four different on-farm enterprises, including table eggs.
Forages: What Goats Like and What They Don’t
This presentation describes goats’ feeding behavior and dietary requirements, with an emphasis on managing goats on pasture.
Managing Goats for Herd Health
This presentation describes a holistic approach to goat health management, and includes a list of related resources.
Dewormers and Dewormer Resistance; Introduction to Eye Scores
Integrated Parasite Management for Your Goats
Goat Health Management Materials List
This list of goat health products used in the Kerr Center’s goat program includes notes on use and suppliers.
Oklahoma Forage-Based Buck Test Summary Report: First Five Years (2007-2011)
2012 Oklahoma Forage-Based Buck Test Report
2011 Oklahoma Forage-Based Buck Test Report
2010 Commercial Meat Goat Forage Performance (Buck) Test Report
2009 Commercial Meat Goat Forage Performance (Buck) Test Report
2008 Commercial Meat Goat Forage Performance (Buck) Test Report
2007 Commercial Meat Goat Forage Performance (Buck) Test Report
Watering Systems
New Use for Old Tires
This fact sheet explains why the Kerr Center livestock program uses old tires from heavy equipment as watering tanks, and describes the process of preparing and installing them.
Protecting Water Quality While Healing Erosion Caused by Livestock Trails
This Oklahoma Producer Grant project fact sheet includes a farm/ranch profile, project objectives, project description (water line, watering points, results), and tips/lessons learned.
Sustainable Livestock Production Circle
This diagram illustrates the basic interconnection between soil, forages, animals, and weather in livestock production.
How to Direct Market Your Beef
Multiple Species Grazing in Oklahoma
Management Intensive Grazing
Layout and Design of Grazing Systems
Enough Grass to Make Your Head… Rotate
Brush Control with Goats
ATTRA Resources on Sustainable/Organic Beef Production
Soil Health and How it Relates to Healthy Cattle
This presentation covers simple soil health monitoring techniques, basic soil science, and sustainable livestock management.
Heifer Management
This report covers heifer selection and nutrition, early puberty, target weight concept, proper feeding, breeding, calving difficulty, and bull selection.
Electric Fencing for Serious Graziers
Electric Fence FAQ
Electric Fencing Cost Comparison
Holistic Approach to Animal Health and Well-Being
This document covers livestock health management from a whole-farm perspective, including an emphasis on “wellness promotion” as opposed to “disease prevention,” and a discussion of stress management.
Herd Health Overview
This presentation includes a detailed discussion of vaccines, discusses managing both immunity levels and disease exposure, and addresses the effect of difficult births.
Compensatory Gain
Cattle Dentition
Body Condition Scoring of Beef Cows
Beef Cow Herd Health Protocol
Management for Animal Health
Beef Cattle Assessment
Basic Nutrition and Winter Grazing
Growing Your Range Poultry Business: An Entrepreneur’s Toolbox
Electric Fence for Small Ruminants
Forage Strategies for Small Acreages
Selection Procedures for Meat Goat Breeding Programs
Reproduction and the Bottom Line
This presentation discusses the management of goat reproduction to maximize profits.
