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)
Clarivate Journal Citation Indicator (2024): 0.26
Scopus CiteScore (2024): 1.4
A survey of management policies for fertility in Rhodesian dairy herds
The distribution of calving Intervals of Rhodesian milk-recorded cows that completed lactations in 1969 was positively skew. The mean was approximately 400 days, but the mode was approximately 365 days. A questionnaire to farmers who participated in the milk-recording scheme…
Carcass and meat quality of Africander and Jersey crossbred steers
Africander cows were inseminated with the semen of Limousine and Normande bulls and Jersey cows with that of bulls of the above two breeds as well as with Charolais semen. The male castrate progeny were compared in a fattening experiment…
The effect of the protein solubility of fish meal and the roughage content of the supplemented diet on its digestion by sheep
The effect of formaldehyde treatment on the solubility of fish meal in M.NaC1 solution was investigated. Subsequently the variation in solubility of fish meals obtained from various sources was examined. A series of metabolic trials was then conducted with Merino…
The influence of live weight on the voluntary intake of low quality roughage by merino sheep and its implications for successful
In experiments with adult Merino wethers, where wheaten straw was supplemented with an urea-containing mixture, the following was found: (a) Poor quality roughage may maintain the body weight of Merino sheep provided that the organic matter digestibility is not lower…
