Cattle feeding

Age of puberty attainment in beef cattle is an important aspect for producers. This is because age at puberty is a key factor for a heifer’s lifetime reproductive performance. Beef cattle management programs aim for heifers to conceive by two years of age, but this can be a challenge when producing Bos indicus cattle. Puberty attainment in Bos indicus cattle is considerably lengthier than Bos taurus cattle, with the age at first calving typically being 40 months or more (Nogueira, 2003).…

in tannins than the grazer diet. Boer goats are generally active and selective, and they are able to walk long distances in search for feed. But under resource limiting conditions, goats will become heavy browsers and less discriminating in their feeding habits due to a decrease in supply. The goats, in order to survive and keep producing good quality meat need to have the ability to tolerate these tannins. Inability to tolerate them will lead to poor weight gain, sickness and even…

Cattle slaughter is the killing of nonhuman animals also referred as killing domestic livestock. The animals are generally killed for food; however, they might also be killed for other reasons such as being diseased or unsuitable times for families to feed it. The animals most commonly slaughtered for food in India are cattle and water buffalo for beef and goats for goat meat and mutton, pigs for pork and ham, horses for horse meat, chickens and ducks, and increasingly, fish farming in the…

to go west to find the cattle; on the way to find, the cattle Tayo meet a woman. After meeting the woman, Tayo continued his journey. This time, Tayo went north into the mountains. When Tayo went into the mountains, he found a big section of land that was fenced off. It was on this portion of land that Tayo found the cattle. The land belonged to a Texas rancher and Tayo could not believe that whites were thieves. Tayo had to cut a hole in the fence in order to let the cattle escape. First Tayo…

We live in a world where there is no compassion we have forgotten about the animal’s rights and their freedom that we allowed seeing thousands of animals captured in tiny cages and abused against their will. Imagine yourself in a world where you’re kept in captivity day and night not being able to move around. These are just some of the things that happen inside Factory Farms where animals are raised. Factory farming should not be allowed in America and around the world it is animal cruelty and…

are chopping up chunks of cattle, standing in pools of pool that were deep. Workers were killing cattle by hitting them and slicing them up. Even though there are machines to process meat, with cattle there are different sizes that come along with it. Unlike other animals, cattle would have to be slice in a particular way and with knives. In this case workers must work in a quick way to slice up cattle to almost keep with how their machines would. Some plants kill 400 cattle an hour. The work…

before any foreign settlers appeared on the coasts of South Africa, there existed a multitude of ethnic groups such as the Khoisan and Bantu-speaking communities, both of which have many sub groups. The most dominant feature though was the valuing of cattle and oxen and the main ingredients besides meat included grains and various vegetables. After the ethnic groups intermixed more, the first European to encounter present day South African land was the Portuguese Bartolomeu Dias. The ever…

1. ABSTRACT: A total of 552 serum samples of sheep, goats and cattle from different localities at Assiut governorate, Egypt were screened for qualitative analysis of the BTV antibodies using a commercial competitive ELISA (cELISA) kit. The results showed an overall percentage of BTV positive sheep, goats and cattle serum samples were 41.86%, 24% and 85.42% respectively. A highest percentage of seropositivity was found in Arab El- Awamer farm(100%), followed by Abnoub( 63. 64%), Sedfa(11.…

Montana, the state where winter seems to never go away and spring seems to be only a few weeks and suddenly it is summer and seems even when naked your body is boiling and no matter the amount of ice filled cold water you can’t stay cool enough. Don’t get me wrong I love winters and wouldn’t trade Montana winters for anything in the world but at the same I also am an individual whose moods are highly dependent on the weather and so when the cloudy skies and freezing cold temperatures finally…

The pastures were not fenced off from the road and the appellant's cattle frequently crossed the road unattended to drink water. In this case the defendant had poor, incomplete fences unlike Poteat with normal, well kept fences. The Court of appeals had 3 assignments of error. In the first assignment of error, it is…