ANSC 1011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dairy Cattle, Animal Breeding, Feedlot
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Domestic animals serve us in many ways, primarily for food: use them for pets, entertainment, and money, people are more interested in the other benefits besides food now adays. (protozoa). Ruminate animals are herbivores and can digest cellulose by bacteria: we can digest cellulose just not effectively. (digest in hind gut). Pure bread: parents are same breed and they have documentation that they are a pure breed. Hunter gatherers farmers agriculture: almost all people are dependent on agriculture for their, the more developed agricultural countries also have the highest existence. Cattle are in a beef feedlot because they are most likely going to get slaughtered. Dairy cattle go out on pastures if the dairy is smaller: larger dairy cattle farms use feedlots. Both poultry and swine are non-ruminants: young chickens for mea production: broilers, the desired color for both swine and chickens is white. They"re white because they don"t want their food to be.
