LIVESTOCK FARMING OR STOCK BREEDING

This activity obtains different products from animals such as meat, milk, wool, fur and eggs.

The main types of livestock are:

1 CATTLE : COWS, OXEN, BULLS, BUFFALO, ZEBU (MILK – DIARY PRODUCTS – FUR)

Respuesta productiva del ganado Cebú suplementado con energizante hasta el  año de edad en el trópico mexicano

2. GRAZING ANIMALS: SHEEP AND GOATS (MILK- CHEESE- WOOL) SHEEP FARMING 

Y la innovación en el sector ovino? - Agrónoma

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3. PIGS

Un puñado de cerdos ibéricos pastando por la dehesa.

4. EQUINE  HORSES, MULES AND OTHER EQUINES – WORK(RIDING AND TRACTION) RECREATION(RIDING/RACING), FUR, MEAT.Caballos de una explotación equina

5. CUNICULTURE OR RABBIT BREEDING – MEAT /FUR/PETS

As Cuniculture gains popularity, Kashmir's only rabbit farm witnesses surge  in sales | Rising Kashmir

6. POULTRY (HENS, CHICKENS, DUCKS, TURKEYS) – MEAT/ EGGS/ FEATHERS

AVES de CORRAL: Tipos y Ejemplos con Fotos

AVES de CORRAL: Tipos y Ejemplos con Fotos

7. APICULTURE OR BEEKEEPING (HONEY , BEEWAX)

beekeeping.pngAseguran apicultores que su acceso fue eliminado

8 CAMELIDS (CAMELS , ALPACAS AND LLAMAS) – WOOL/ MEAT/ MILK/ TRANSPORT

granja de llamas y alpacas: fotografía de Balcon del Inka, Chinchero -  Tripadvisor

Alpacana: Prendas con lana de alpacas cántabras - Cantabria Económica

TYPES OF LIVESTOCK FARMING

Livestock is classified according to different criteria:

CAPITAL INVESTMENT AND LABOUR

  1. Extensive livestock farming: capital investment is limited and productivity low. The livestock is mostly cattle and sheep and grazes on large pasture in the open air.
2.
Intensive livestock farming capital investment in feed, farms etc, labour andn productivity are high. Mostly cattle , pigs and poultry is farmed.
 
 
3. Organic livestock respects the environment and animal welfare.  Animals are not fed artificially as well as they are not grown using stimulants. Production is low but high quality.
 
Agricultura y ganadería orgánica • gestiopolis
 

FOOD AND LIVESTOCK METHODS

  • Grazing livestock when animals are fed on grass.
Some farmers are rotating livestock, not just crops, to protect the land |  The World from PRX
  • Confined livestock animals are kept in sheeds and eat feed.
Los datos detrás de la guerra por las macrogranjas
  • Semi- confined livestock in summer animals  eat grass when there is not enfough grass they eat feed.

Recursos: Ganadería estabulada o intensiva y ganadería extensiva

MOBILITY OF LIVESTOCK

Nomadic  herding : herders and their families are constantly moving in search of good pasture.

+   Transhumance or seasonal migration of livestock: herders move their animals several times a year between winter and summer pastures.

Sedentary livestock farming animals do not move around to obtain food as farmers give them feed.

POWERPOINT PRESENTATION: 

livestock      

NOTES:       

LIVESTOCK BREEDING NOTES

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LIVESTOCK PICTURES   

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