The South African Journal of Animal Science is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. The journal publishes reports of research dealing with the production of farmed animal species (cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, horses, poultry and ostriches), as well as pertinent aspects of research on companion animals and aquatic and wildlife species. All submitted articles are subjected to a single-blind peer review process that is managed by a section editor under the supervision of the editor-in-chief. Copyright of a published article resides with the authors. Such articles will be published as open access content and be covered by the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 South African Licence. Users may copy, distribute, transmit and adapt the work, but must recognise the authors and the South African Journal of Animal Science.
Originally supported by the Agricultural Research Council (ARC), the South African Journal of Animal Science moved online in the early 2000s using a custom-built manuscript submission and editorial management system. In August 2025, the journal transitioned to the Public Knowledge Project’s Open Journal Systems (PKP OJS), hosted by Khulisa Journals at the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf).
In line with international best practices, the journal integrates key components of digital research infrastructure, including DOIs (digital object identifiers), ORCID iDs (researcher identifiers), ROR IDs (research organisation identifiers), and CCLs (Creative Commons Licences), ensuring transparency, traceability, and global interoperability.
As of August 2025, the South African Journal of Animal Science makes use of the Crossref 10.17159 DOI prefix. View the journal metadata health and the Crossref DOI Conflict Report here.
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Clarivate Journal Impact Factor (2024): 0.6 (Q4 of subject category)
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Scopus CiteScore (2024): 1.4
Optimizing soybean flour-, whey powder- and colostrums ratios for rearing dairy calves
The object of the study was to determine diet combinations consisting of soybean flour, whey powder and colostrum that can be employed in practice to decrease the pre-weaning rearing costs of dairy calves. In a mixture design experiment the soybean…
The replacement of maize meal with sodium hydroxide treated wheat straw in growth diets for lambs
The possible replacement of maize with NaOH-treated straw in growth diets of lambs were tested. Four diets with 43; 29; 14 and 0% maize grain and 0; 24; 48 and 72% treated straw were formulated in such a way that…
Effects of physical form and alkali treatment of maize grain supplements on hay intake and utilization by steers
It has often been proposed that the physical form of the grain supplement could affect the intake and utilization of forages. Suppression of forage intake i)r poor utilization appears to be a function of high fermentation rate which could be…
Sorghum grain as substitute for maize in fattening diets for beef steers
The possibility of substituting maize for sorghum grain in fattening diets was studied in a digestibility trial with wethers and a growth study with steers. ln die digestibility trial a 6 x 6 Latin square design was used with maize,…
An evaluation of high lysine maize in the diets of broilers
The feeding value of high lysine maize compared with normal yellow maize in the diets of broiler chickens was evaluated in 2 experiments using 2400 chickens in each trial. In the first experiment, although no differences in mass gain or…
