No Stress cattle management
Sunday, March 6th, 2011No stress cattle handling allows to gain in efficiency and profitability :
– One gaucho and two dogs can handle more than 200 cattle at a time, making the job more easy and secure.
– It installs a confidence bound between animal and man, to better and faster move the cattle, enabling a top quality grass and food management.
– Most of the ranchs which have adopted these methods have cut their health and Vetenary budget.
The introduction of the No Stress Cattle Management of Dr Temple Grandin and Cowboy Bud Williams to ease the lead of 8 000 cattle by the gauchos and refrain violence on animals for a better health, better work conditions and general efficiency of the estancia is defenitly not a new age fantasy, it is overall better management.
These methods also lead to the design of corral equipments to reduce animal stress while upgrading the efficiency, the safety and time needed for the usual ranch tasks, such as sorting, curing and charging on the truck.
Climate change Bee Hive
Saturday, March 5th, 2011SOS SOiL’s Terracotta BeeHive
Specially designed to overcome the “varroa destructor†infestation of bees : The egg shaped beehive having no angle, allows a fluid ventilation by the beeworkers to impeach any varroa and parasite to enter their home. Terracotta was chosen because all the wild bees in Pampa Grande are making their home with it. It is an excellent material to compensate seasonal and day temperature change : it is cool in hot summer and warm in winter; a fine way to ease the life of the bees in these times of climate change.
In summer the hive is placed upside down with the hive cap up. It has a hole on top to enable more caps on top and produce more honey, if possible in the good years. The bottom, the big habitat which is the bees’ home, is never harvested in order to provide sufficient stapple food for the bees during the whole winter. The hole on the cap allows also to separate naturally the honey from the wax : you harvest the honey by displaying it at a low heat from the sun and recollect it in your pot through the hole, making it extremely easy to manipulate even by a neophite.
This beehive is inspired from the ancient Egyptian clay-beehives and by the theories of the French poet and artist Maurice Chaudière.
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