Lecture 13 Flashcards
(7 cards)
1
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Ruminants
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Animals with 4 chambers for their stomachs. Allows for them t breakdown and liberate energy and nutrients from fibre.
2
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Livestock production systems:
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extensive, Intensive and mixed system.
3
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Extensive
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Maximum use of grazing and low cost, locally produced inputs.
4
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Intensive
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Based on high cost feed items such as grain, oil cakes, and cultivated fodder.
5
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Mixed system
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grazing/ low-input early in growth cycle.
6
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Monogastrics
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single stomach that cannot break down fibrous materials.
7
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Desertification of pastures leads to
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soil erosion, surface destabilization, and loss of soil and vegetation carbon stocks.
