Modern technologies such as the rotary milking parlour allow the milker to stay in one place with easy access to the cowsﾒ utters.
Grazing is encouraged as it provides fresh air and exercise for dairy cattle.
Sick cows are identified by a leg band and are milked with a bypass-milker to ensure that their milk does not reach the supply for human consumption.
Milk is refrigerated in large stainless steel tanks where it is kept until the milk truck arrives to pick it up.
A calf hutch is used to house both veal and dairy calves.
Elk near a community pasture in southern SK.
Saskatchewan has the second largest population of farmed elk and deer species in Canada.
In 2001, Saskatchewan had 30 per cent of the elk and deer farmed in Canada, approximately 39,000 head, of that 32 000 elk.
Saskatchewan game farm elk. Elk velvet antler can be harvested yearly with no harm to the animal.
Goats will consume approximately 4.5 pounds of dry matter per 100 lbs of body weight per day.
Due to rapid growth, goat hooves need to be trimmed regularly.