herd management
An Assessment of Traffic Safety in Urban Deer Herd Management Zones in Iowa
... deer management zones in Iowa over the period 2002 to ...deer management plans in place were selected for this study: Cedar Rapids, Dubuque, and Iowa ...deer herd management zones and could be ...
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Herding territories in Northern Cameroon and Western Burkina Faso: spatial arrangements and herd management
... Herd management practices were studied in detail for two consecutive years (from 2006 to 2008) to understand how they were adapted to the high land saturation in the study areas and the local knowledge ...
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Implementation of a herd management system with wireless sensor networks
... of herd distribution based on 14 Limosin and Angus crosses in a working farm is ...the herd mobility two tailored networking schemes are proposed facilitating real-time data ...
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Farm economic thinking and the genetic improvement of fertility in northern beef herds
... other herd management strategies will lead to herds with higher reproduction ...impact herd structures and output over time, making prediction of the economic value of the genetic improvement of ...
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Farm management factors associated with bulk tank somatic cell count in Irish dairy herds
... In agreement with most previous studies (Barkema et al. 1998; Chassagne et al. 2005) clean farms, houses and milking parlours were strongly associated with lower SCS. The importance of cleanliness and hygiene was ...
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Characteristics of the dairy goat primary sector at the Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil
... used. Herd variables, by its turn, were estimated based on answers of the farmers concerning herd composition, production and necessary hand labour to perform daily work associated to the activity, either ...
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Central West Mitchell Grasslands livestock production systems. Preparing for, responding to, and recovering from drought
... This management approach was based on the perception of some managers that unfavourable cattle prices during and after drought result in poor profitability from de-stocking and then re-stocking decisions at those ...
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Composition of camel milk and evaluation of food supply for camels in Uzbekistan
... Analysis of the dispersion of the values found for component composition among camel milk samples proposed influence of various factors such the health status, herd management practices,[r] ...
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Integrated data-collection system tracks beef cattle from conception to carcass
... improve herd management and genetic char- acteristics such as fertility, weaning weight and ...beef herd seamlessly transfers information between the UC Sierra Foothill Research and Extension Center, ...
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Reproductive management in dairy cows - the future
... the herd, and hence profitability. This approach was called herd health management and has been imple- mented in veterinary education for at least 3 ...in herd health management to ...
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Risk management of paratuberculosis in dairy herds
... closed herd management and a vigorous execution of preventive management ...preventive management measures are also advised if clinical signs of paratuberculosis are ...preventive ...
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Factors associated with the growing-finishing performances of swine herds: an exploratory study on serological and herd level indicators
... reduced herd per- formance in the growing-finishing steps in herds without obvious clinical signs of PCVD and without PCV2 vac- cination of ...to herd management, hygiene and biosecurity measures, ...
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Fulani cattle productivity and management in the Kachia Grazing Reserve, Nigeria
... and herd splitting in re- sponse to limited availability of grazing within the reserve, and transhumance was found to increase in duration and frequency with the arrival of the new ...
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Assessment of Structural Traits and Management Related to Dairy Herds in the Peri-urban Area of Bobo Dioulasso (South West of Burkina Faso)
... to our findings. Although the difference was not statistically significant, single prop- erty herds were smaller (37.7±21.2) than multi property ones (44.3±22.8). This is in relation with the widespread tradition to entrust ...
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Estimation of milk production efficiency of dairy cow farms in Embu and Meru counties of Kenya
... farm management practices (efficiency improvement), expanding dairy herd sizes (increase in operational scale) and increasing milk yields (mainly per cow milk ...
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Prevalence of human pathogenic Yersinia enterocolitica in Swedish pig farms
... within herd indicated a very high degree of clustering by ...the herd level, not factors that vary by pen or animal within ...the herd and not as independent management ...the herd does ...
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The marketing of herd health and production management services on Dutch dairy farms: perceptions of dairy farmers and their veterinary surgeons
... veterinary herd health and production management services was conducted on 194 specialist dairy veterinarians and 466 dairy ...of herd health and production management ...in herd health ...
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Imbedding HACCP principles in dairy herd health and production management: case report on calf rearing
... Although this field study was based on a small number of farms, it has shown that the HACCP concept may be implemented within the context of optimal calf rearing. As other studies already suggested (Noordhuizen, 2004; ...
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Modelling the spread of bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) in a beef cattle herd and its impact on herd productivity
... a herd and to evaluate its impact on herd dynamics and productivity for a large range of management scenarios ...the herd [7,9,10] and regional scales ...beef herd have been proposed to ...
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Genetic parameters and effect of non genetic factors on lifetime performance traits of murrah buffalo: A review
... are several non-genetic factors which introduce biasness in the estimation of genetic value of performance traits. The non genetic factors such as management, amount and quality of feed, season etc. also influence ...
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