Learn About Creating Bush Feed / BosKos for Grazers
This bush feed page has been compiled by Ritlee with help from many farmers, education, laboratories and a lot of research. We encourage you to do your own trials etc as well.
We at Ritlee have been researching and testing various options to create bush feed / boskos for cattle and other livestock from bush / brush in southern Africa since the drought of 2010. Research shows southern African farmers face an ever increasing risk of drought brought on by climate change. This directly affects livestock and game farming viability. As a result we felt it necessary to share this information and research with our farmers. Dry Areas
Below is a collection of information and research results on creating feed from bush / brush for grazers (cattle, sheep, horses etc).
Farmers all over southern Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Malawi, Zambia, etc have been of great assistance and help in compiling this data.
Link to original feed from bush page till this one working well!
Climate change and how Ritlee is trying to assist!
Drought, floods, locusts… Ensuring availability of livestock feed is becoming more difficult for farmers due to Climate Change. We have the solution with our…
Read More
Fine Grinding Nut shells, husk, pods, acacia etc for use in compost mix or cattle feed
A useful advantage of our chipper with grinding for the hard to do woods and shells is it's ability to finely grind nut shells,…
Read More
Black Wattle as Bush Feed – A Must Read
Trials done by farmers in Eastern Cape on Black Wattle proved to be really beneficial, improving milk fats and protein levels.
,"sktbuilderUrl": "https://ritlee.co.za/wp-content/plugins/skt-builder/sktbuilder/", "driver": new SktbuilderWordpressDriver({"ajaxUrl": "https://ritlee.co.za/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php", "iframeUrl": "https://ritlee.co.za/learn-how-to-create-bush-feed-boskos/?sktbuilder=true", "pageId": 6303, "pages": [{"title":"Our Products: Agricultural Equipment & Machinery","url":"https:\/\/ritlee.co.za\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=4906&action=sktbuilder"}], "page": "Learn About Creating Bush Feed / BosKos for Grazers" }) });