Alpaca’s
The Australian Alpaca Conference was held in Adelaide Australia in May 2014 over 3 days. Speakers covered all topics relating directly to Alpaca productivity and well being. This is the paper presented by Pasture and Animal Consultant Bryan L McLeod View PDF here.
MUN Milk urea nitrogen and BUN Blood urea nitrogen
Milk urea nitrogen and blood urea nitrogen are both becoming recognised issues in both our dairy industry and in human health. As higher nitrogen pasture is consumed then levels increase and the question is what is if any the adverse effect on milk quality. We know that there are serious side effects for health both […]
Saliva Production–The importance of it
Saliva – I feel is almost completely overlooked in its importance for our digestion and general health. More research is required to look at our salivation time. This is the time when eating that we are actually producing saliva and how much saliva are we producing. Naturally we are producing some saliva every time we […]
Nitrates: Good or bad? Look for yourself
Nitrates are part of the protein in food, but a toxic part. Protein is just total nitrogen X 6.25. The total nitrogen% is made up of different forms of nitrogen with some being toxic and some being ideal
Protein excess and the dangers
You only have to look on the net to see how much info is available about the dangers of consuming excess protein. We have medical research showing the dangers and nutritionists and gyms promoting high protein diets. Here are some extracts from the net Bryan M
Rice/vegetable trials China
In 1998 I was asked to be involved with rice trials near Changsha in the Hunan Province. This was with the HAAS (Hunan Academy of Agricultural Science) a research centre looking at improving rice and vegetable yields. My objective was to show how we can increase both the yield and quality of rice/vegetables with a […]