Recent Developments in Goat Farming and Perspectives for a Sustainable Production in Western Africa

The West African region has a great diversity of indigenous goat breeds that are well adapted to such environmental conditions. West African goat population was estimated to be around 150 million heads in 2014, representing 14.82% of the world goat population. Goats play an important role in the socio-economic, environmental and religious life of the farming communities in terms of income, payment of dowry and supplying food for the local population. The traditional keeping system based on natural rangeland use as feed resources and free roaming is the most common system in the regions. Although goat industries have significantly increased these last decades, they are subjected to a variety of factors limiting their development. For a sustainable development with the goals of meeting the increasing demand for goat products, a wide intensification of goat production policies should be implemented

Saf ivesi ve değişik kan dereceli ost firiz x ivesi melezi koyunların, Çukurova subtropik iklim koşullarındaki fizyolojik tepkileri ve performansları üzerine bir araştırma

TEZ1342Tez (Yüksek Lisans) -- Çukurova Üniversitesi, Adana, 1993.Kaynakça (s. 36-39) var.iv, 41 s. ; 30 cm.

Çukurova Bölgesi subtropik iklim koşullarında geliştirilen bazı keçi genotiplerinin bu koşullardaki adaptasyon mekanizmaları üzerinde karşılaştırılmalı araştırmalar

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Consumer Trend of Red Meat Consumption

The research carried out so that an adult should consume daily 70 grams of protein has been reported that 40% must consist of animal-derived proteins. This is only obtained from animal proteins such as meat, milk, eggs and honey. Meat among nutrients for the feeding of animal origin it has an importance role. Red meat is the most valuable source of animal protein. Red meats are classified as; cattle, sheep, goat , pig , llama , buffalo, camels , kangaroos and so on. Cattle, sheep, goat and buffalo meats are common source of red meat, in our country. In this paper the consumer trends will be considered. For this aim, the questionnary for preferences and consumption of read meat by the young generation of Adana province (18-24 years) will be determined

Injuries Caused By Animal Contact İn Dairy Farms And Prevention Ways

The systematic work carried out in order to protect from the health hazards caused by various reasons at the workplaces during the execution of the works is called occupational health and safety In accordance with the Law No. 6331 on Occupational Health and Safety, the obligation to perform a risk assessment of all workplaces has started as of January 1, 2012. In this respect, dairy cattle farms have a high risk factor. The hardware and technological infrastructure of the enterprises, ergonomic conditions in terms of employee and animal management, the skill level of the personnel, the job description and organization of the works, the routine controls, the operating environment conditions are linked with the production stages. 98% of occupational accidents and occupational diseases can be prevented considering that awareness is a very important sateg of the prevention. The number of people employed by economic activity decreased by 71 thousand people in the agricultural sector, 60 thousand in the industrial sector, 3 thousand in the construction sector and 49 thousand people in the service sector. 1.444.000 enterprises (284.000 beef, 1.160.000 breeder) are present in our country. 72.5% of the cattle breeders were 10 head and six (27% of the number of animals), 10-49% of them were 25% (47% of the number of animals), and 2.5% of the number of animals (50%). 26 of them have the number of animals (Anonymous, 2018). People tend to move away from agriculture, in particular from livestock. In the last 40 years, the rural population has fallen below 20% from 40% and the rural population is getting older. This situation constitutes a significant risk in terms of production increase and sustainability in livestock sector. According to accident reports, agricultural machinery, tractors (18%) and animals (17%) often cause accidents. The sum of hand tools and power tools causes accidents as much as other machines (14%). In this study, a survey study was conducted in order to determine the risk factors of animal contact-related injury in animal husbandry enterprise employees

Using Animal Behavior Charatersitics and Appropriate Equipment for Better Fattening Performances

The last twenty years, many important developments have occurred in Turkey beef production, big scales, market, housing, nutrition, and weight given to health protection measures have been many technological advances in this area. It is now being tried to be done in a small number of large and specialized farms operated according to production entrepreneurship criteria. However, yields per animal have not been achieved. Failure to achieve the desired feed performance in imported culture breeds and hybrids may be considered as indicators of administrative and maintenance problems. Animal feed, weighing, control and managemental problems are experienced in large fattening enterprises. Ignoring issues such as human animal contact in large-scale fattening enterprises and animal equipment used in the management of animals, which are not in accordance with animal behavior characteristics, increase the losses. The cattle senses characteristics effect tehir reflex and natural behaviors. Cattle can seriously injure or kill people. Being careless or in the wrong place at the wrong time can be costly. Thus, with the approach to animal nature and the use of tool equipment, better cattle performance, fattening and profitability can be achieved. Therefore, in this study, the approaches and the measures to be taken during the observation of intensive fattening enterprises will be discussed for aspect of profitabiliy.Türkiye sığır eti üretiminde son yirmi yılda çok önemli gelişmeler meydana gelmiş, ölçekler büyümüş, pazar, barınak, besleme, sağlık koruma önlemlerine ağırlık verilmiş ve bu alanda birçok teknolojik gelişmeler olmuştur. Artık besilicikte de üretim girişimcilik kriterlerine göre işletilen az sayıdaki büyük ve özelleşmiş çiftliklerde yapılmaya çalışılmaktadır. Ancak hayvan başına verimlerde istenilen verim düzeyleri yakalanabilmiş değildir. İthal edilen kültür ırkı ve melezlerinde de istenilen besi performanslarının yakalanamaması yönetsel ve bakım konusunda problemler olduğunun göstergesi olarak kabul edilebilir. Büyük besi işletmelerinde hayvan takip, tartım, kontrol ve uygulamalarda sorunlar yaşanmaktadır. Büyük ölçekli besi işletmelerinde yaşanan insan hayvan temasları ve hayvanların yönetiminde kullanılan alet ekipmanların hayvan davranış özelliklerine uygun olmaması gibi konuların göz ardı edilmesi kayıpların artmasına neden olmaktadır. Sığırların görme, duyma, temas, koklama özellikleri davranışların şekillendirir. Bu nedenle sığırın doğasına uygun yaklaşım ve yönetim kayıpları önler. Böylece hayvan doğasına uygun yaklaşım ve alet ekipman kullanımı ile daha iyi sığır performansı, besi takibi ve karlılık elde edilebilir. Bu nedenle bu çalışmada, entansif besi işletmelerinde gözlem sonucu elde edilen yaklaşımlar ve alınabilecek önlemler konusu üzerinde durulacaktır

Organik Koyun Yetiştiriciliği

Artan dünya nüfusuna paralel olarak artan gıda ihtiyacını karşılamak nedeniyle geçtiğimiz yüzyılın başlarında ortaya çıkan ve birim alandan daha çok verim elde etmeyi amaçlayan yoğun girdili üretim metotları günümüzde büyük sorunlara neden olmaktadır. Bozulan ekolojik denge, kirlenen çevre ve yoğun girdili üretimin neden olduğu sağlık problemleri kendini göstermeye başlamıştır. İşte bu gibi nedenlerle yeni bir üretim sistemine duyulan ihtiyaçtan ötürü ortaya çıkan ve hızla gelişmekte olan organik tarım, doğal kaynaklarımızla sürdürülebilir üretim yapmayı amaçlamıştır. Organik tarımın önemli bir kolu olan organik hayvansal üretim ise, dünyada organik bitkisel üretim kadar hızlı bir şekilde gelişmektedir. Ülkemizde henüz öncü yetiştiriciler tarafından uygulanan organik hayvansal üretim, üreticilerimizin dikkatini çekmeyi başardığı takdirde benimsenecek ve ülkemiz hayvancılığının içinde bulunduğu darboğazdan çıkışında lokomotif görevi üstlenecektir. Bu bağlamda ülkemizin iklim, arazi ve doğal koşullarında, yetiştiricilerimizin sosyo-ekonomik imkânları dâhilinde uygulanma potansiyeline sahip olan organik koyun yetiştiriciliği bu makalede ele alınacaktır.Cause of the increasing human population and food needs, applying methods from the beginning of the past century for obtain more product from the unit area caused important problems at the present day. Imparied ecological balance, environmental pollution and conventional production caused health problems today and if measures will not taken they cause bigger problems in the future. In that reasons organic (ecological-biyological) agriculture appears and rapidly devoloped. The target of organic agriculture is have a sustainable production with natural resources and show respect to the nature, animals and humans. However organic agriculture looks like an alternative production method in today it will be the inevitable production method in the future. This study includes organic agriculture, organic livestock production, the necessary of organic farming and organic sheep breeding which has a potential production possibility in the terms of our country

Climate Change and Animal Agriculture Interactions in Mediterranean Region

The environment of livestock production, agricultural crops and related management practices developed over the past 10,000 years is significantly changing due to human-induced CC. Currently, even countries located within the temperate zone are affected by changes in global warming. Farm animal production systems and considerations on strategies of adaptation to global warming and climate change, which are in mutual interaction with each other, have become recently a popular subject on the public agenda and scientific literature. The main conclusions that can be made is that uttermost scenarios of climatic change will negatively affect the dairy and meat industry and that the contribution of farm animals to the both industries will increase in proportion to the severances of changes in environmental temperature. Heat stress (HS) imposed by high ambient temperature in temperate zones such as Germany, northern Italy or the United States was identified in recent years as a major factor which has a negative impact on milk production, reproduction, and the optimum health score of dairy cows. HS has also shown to increase appreciably the cow's mortality in those areas. On the other hand, there is no evidence that dairy goat production in temperate zones is affected so far; though evidence for such effects was noticed in deserts and Mediterranean countries. The aim of this paper to evaluate climate change and animal agriculture interactions in the Mediterranean Region

The Profitable Cattle Fattening Operations Using Modern Technologies for Turkey Red Meat Demand

Modern technology provide beef industry with improved methods, management processes and accuracy. Technological applications have contributed to the beef sector such as nutrition and health management; information techniques, cattle management procedures and accurate cattle tracing.Fattening of animals is a highly profitable venture with return of premium to the farmer. The large scale beef farming must be meet economic criteria for sustainable production. It consists of buying healthy stock, feeding and fattening them to optimum carcass weight , and selling them at anytime of the year. They are handled in such a way that maximum growth is achieved at the lowest possible cost. The lifespan of operation is shorter and the return of investment is relatively higher. In beef farms which very high genetic value of breeding animals cannot be get the expected performance without the use of technology and automation systems. Beef herd management programs if can be used as effectively, farming will have many advantages for consumer, farmer and also animals. However, to obtain these advantages from this system required to have knowledge of the functions and effective use of the functions. The large amount of data in the obtained on many issues related to animals, herd management and an individual unless used in decisions about animals, ensuring the heavy data flow, record keeping or assessment will not give the expected results. In this study it has been aiming that the examined modern technologies for profitable cattle fattening for Turkey meat market