ANSC 4100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Manure Management, Heat Therapy, Thermal Conductivity
19 Feb 2018
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Do they like to be individual (solitary); in some cases when an animal is sick they usually separate themselves from a group. What happens within a 24 hour cycles; feeding/drinking patterns. Breed/strain differences: flightiness (hot/warm/cold wired) behaviour traits, handling and facility design, mothering ability. Stage of production: growing, breeding, gestating, parturient, lactating affects. Feeding level and feeding system; when you con ne animals they tend to like to drink water individually, in a more robotic facility they might like to eat more as individuals whereas parlour or milking altogether they will eat together. Space allocation and social management; quota practices has minimum requirements, no maximum requirements. Breeding animals may need exposure to opposite sex. Parturient animals may need to be isolated from the group. Nutrients: restricted versus ad libitum feeding determines. Anytime you"re dealing with gilts and dairy cows you can restrict their feed and get a better response; but this is not managerially ef cient.
