Affiliate Disclosure

Some pages on LivestockFarming.org carry affiliate links. If you buy something through one, we may earn a commission. The price you pay is the same either way.

This page explains how that works, and what it does not buy.

Last updated: 10/03/2026

The short version

As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.

Click a product link on this site and buy within a set window, and the retailer pays us a small percentage of the sale. Your cost does not change. It is the same price as going to the retailer directly.

Running this site costs money. Research time, writing, fact checking, hosting, and software all have to be paid for.

Affiliate commissions cover that without a paywall or a page buried in ads. Everything on LivestockFarming.org stays free to read.

What a commission does not buy

This is the part that matters.

No company pays us for coverage. Nobody can buy a mention, a rating, or a place in a list. We cover what producers are actually trying to decide between.

Commission rates do not change our picks. A product that pays more is not recommended more. Where two products do the same job, we name the one the documentation and the owner reports support.

We publish the drawbacks. Every product write-up names real weaknesses, not polite ones. A fault that would matter to you goes in the article, link or no link.

No advertiser sees an article before it publishes. Nobody outside the editorial team reviews or approves what we write.

We do not keep animals, and we do not test equipment

Worth saying plainly, because plenty of sites imply otherwise.

Nobody here owns a herd, a flock, or a handling facility. No chute, feeder, or fence charger written about on this site has been run on our own animals, because we do not have any.

What we do instead:

  • Read manufacturer documentation, operator manuals, and published specifications
  • Read the actual product listing rather than copying another review site
  • Look for patterns across verified buyer feedback, especially on durability and on how equipment holds up to stock
  • Say which of those a claim came from

When a guide says owners consistently report something, that is exactly what it means. It is not our own experience, and we never dress it up as one.

Hands-on equipment testing is real work, and some sites genuinely do it. We are not one of them, and we would rather tell you.

Most buying mistakes cost money. Around livestock, some of them cost an animal. Two limits follow from that.

No prescription products, and no doses. Many livestock medications in the United States need a veterinary prescription or a Veterinary Feed Directive. Others carry meat and milk withdrawal periods set by the product and the species. We do not link to those, and we publish no dosing figures anywhere on the site. That conversation belongs with your veterinarian, and the label on the container you are holding is the legal document.

Nothing we cannot square with basic welfare. Where a piece of equipment is legal but hard on animals, the article says so plainly. We would rather lose a commission than quietly recommend it.

Health supply links here cover the ordinary things: syringes, drench guns, ear tags, hoof knives, thermometers, and calving and lambing kit. Equipment, not medicine.

Getting this one wrong kills sheep, so we are blunt about it.

Sheep and goats look alike and are not the same animal. Copper is a required mineral for goats and toxic to sheep at the level a goat mix carries normally. A link in a goat guide is a link for goats. It is not a small ruminant link.

Every mineral, feed, and supplement we link to names the species it is for, in the sentence that holds the link. Check the tag on the bag against your own animals before any of it reaches a feeder. The tag outranks anything we write.

How we choose which products to cover

A product gets into a guide when we can document why it suits a particular job.

We start from the decision you are actually making. A handling setup for twelve ewes is a different problem from one for two hundred cow-calf pairs. The guide sorts that out first, then names products that fit each answer.

Products with thin documentation or almost no buyer feedback do not get covered. There is nothing solid to say about them.

Affiliate links appear in the gear guides: feeding, fencing, handling, health supplies, and water systems. They also appear inside a species or management guide where a specific tool matters to the step being described.

Most pages carry no affiliate links at all. Species guides, stocking rate pages, breeding calendars, and herd health articles answer a question. They are not selling anything.

About prices

We do not publish prices.

Retail prices move constantly, and a number typed into an article is wrong within weeks. Any price you see comes from the retailer when you click, not from us.

Plenty of livestock equipment carries no link here at all. Squeeze chutes, head gates, scales, and stock trailers come from dealers and farm stores, not from an affiliate catalog. We still cover them, because the decision matters more than the link.

Programs we take part in

Amazon Associates. LivestockFarming.org is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. It is an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.

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Your privacy when you click

Affiliate links use cookies to record that a visit came from this site. That is how the retailer knows which commission to credit.

We never see your name, your address, your payment details, or what you ended up buying. The retailer handles the transaction, and their privacy policy covers it.

Our privacy policy explains what this site itself collects.

Questions

Something here unclear? Want to know why a particular product appears in a guide? Write to editor@livestockfarming.org and we will tell you.