Dairy cattle

So back in spring 2012 , it was bright and sunny day , My cousins and I were bored and we needed something fun. So Kynser and Ross were walking to their camper and they got out water balloon and bopper balloons , they started to fill them up with water. Jaylen and I were going to walk to our grandpa and grandma’s camper to ask for the gator keys , but they were laying out on the table in front of the camper so we grab them. Afterwards we got into the gator and started it and went off with it. We…

on the animal’s skin, while the order Anoplora consists of lice that like to actually suck the animal’s blood. Differentiation between the two different orders of lice matters because treatment is chosen based upon what kind of order of lice the cattle/other animals have. Another name for lice eggs is nits (CAPC,…

Rodeo We had been in Weatherford, Texas for almost 8 months. Coming from rural California we were no strangers to rodeo. Just a few weeks back the wife and I had attended the Fort Worth Stock Show Rodeo with our 5 year-old son, Dylan. I asked Dylan, “so what do you think?” and Dylan said, “I can do that, I want to be a bull rider.” I thought to myself, wow! Is my boy being serious? Watching the rest of the rodeo was such a joy seeing my son light up and talk about all the cowboys. Once we…

Sinclair, U. (2002). The jungle (C.V. Eby, Ed., Norton critical ed.). New York: W. W. Norton & Company. (Original work published 1906) This is a review on select meat packing issues raised in The Jungle regarding organized crime, government action/inaction, food and worker safety, and reform in the early 1900s. Packingtown is “a section of southwest Chicago,” comprised of “stockyards, slaughter-houses, factories, and cramped and filthy living quarters” (Sinclair, 1906/2002, p. vii). The Jungle…

Raising livestock for slaughter has been a long used practice throughout the world for centuries, and with growing populations of people, the livestock industry has had to greatly increase production. In order to meet demand, they have been trying different techniques to raise their animals faster, making them fatter at a younger age. This has been done by replacing more natural feeds such as grasses and legumes with foods like grain and corn. This fattens the animals quickly, and quickens the…

manage what you can measure to identify problems and achieve improved states of welfare (Lyles, Calvo-Lorenzo 5335). Welfare in cattle has been a major topic and question of many many years due to the numerous practices. Societal acceptance is a big concern in the welfare because what ties into it is the views of treatment and living conditions of these animals. In the cattle industry outsiders and the people known as the consumers need to understand how livestock operations work and why they…

We live in a society that follows the traits that are often old enough for the current situation and we have the kind of nature by which we try to follow what the majority of the population does. Sometime it is the pressure from the mass which lets us to oppose our own judgement of a certain case that we have different perception about. It may not matter what society we live in, as we humans always tend to have similar way of thinking in all aspects of life. In “The Lottery” by Chris Abani, he…

cattlemen have had to change their operations in order to feed the world. But as we try to feed more cattle in a smaller area, sickness spreads like wildfire if not treated with antibiotics. Cattle were first brought to the America’s in 1493 on Columbus’s second voyage. (Bravodelux, 2013)Spanish and Portuguese trading ships continued to bring cattle to Southern North America. Many of these cattle ended up on Spanish ranches in Mexico and Texas, where they were butchered for their hides and…

In a nutshell, it has been found that majority of the respondents’ individual annual income from livestock ranges from Rs. 10,001 to Rs.20, 000. 4.2.27. Channel of Distribution for Agricultural Producers of the Respondents The produces in tribal area can be channelized directly to wholesalers or through commission agents or to farmer markets. The channel of distribution for the producers of the tribes in Kalvarayan Hills is presented in the ensuing Table. Table No. 4.26 Channel of Distribution…

The calabash and the horn The calabash and the horn are objects of great cultural value in the bakossi and ngemba ethnic groups in the South West and North West regions of Cameroon respectively. While the calabash Is typical to the bakossi and the horn to the ngemba, both are sometimes used together in some cases. To a stranger, the calabash is simply a bottle gourd or a calabash gourd which is a large vine fruit and a horn is a hard curved and pointed outgrowth on the head of some animals like…