- •Dairy and beef cattle The Introduction
- •Exercises
- •Selecting and Housing Dairy Cattle
- •Exercises
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- •Maintaining the Health of Dairy Cattle
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- •Peculiarities of Calving
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- •Breeding and Improving
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- •Beef cattle and dairy cattle Feeding
- •Exercises
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- •Beef cattle Selecting and Housing Beef Cattle
- •Exercises
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- •Maintaining the Health of Beef Cattle
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- •Breeding and Improving
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- •Dairy and beef cattle Revision
- •II. Hogs Selecting Hogs
- •Exercises
- •Housing Hogs
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- •Some More Interesting Facts about Housing Hogs
- •Exercises
- •Feeding Hogs
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- •Maintaining the Health of Hogs
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- •Breeding and Improving
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- •III. Horses
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- •Housing Horses
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- •Feeding Horses
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- •Peculiarities of Foaling
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- •Maintaining the Health of Horses
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- •Breeding and Improving Horses
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- •Revision
- •Indoor Housing
- •Outdoor Housing
- •IV. Sheep Selecting Sheep
- •Exercises
- •Housing Sheep
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- •Lambing Time
- •Feeding Sheep
- •Exercises
- •Maintaining the Health of Sheep
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- •Breeding and Improving Sheep
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- •Revision
- •Glossary
Breeding and Improving Horses
Strength and endurance are necessary in most types of farm work. Mares and stallions should be able to transmit desirable characteristics to their offspring.
Light horses are kept for various pruposes. Breeders seek to improve them in accordance with the desired purpose or use. In horses for racing, speed is of greatest importance. In saddle horses and light harness horses, beauty and graceful action are desired. The potentialities for good performance are inherited, but training, feeding and care are needed to develop the inherited qualities. However, the ability to transmit the desirable qualities to the offspring differs with individuals. A study of the pedigrees helps to predict the likelyhood that their offspring will be good. If close ancestors of a mare or a stallion have been good performers, the mare or the stallion is more likely to produce good offspring. This likelyhood is increased if all brothers and sisters of the individual under consideration are constantly good performers.
Exercises
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S…………………… - a seat for putting on the back of a horse or other animal.
M…………………..- a female horse or donkey.
F………………….. – a young horse.
W…………………… - to make a young take food other than its mother’s milk.
C………………………… - spreading by contact with an infected person or animal.
Revision
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Horse protection(2) exercise stalls housing(2) body barn |
Indoor Housing
Indoor housing is often used for a … that is being ridden every day in the winter. The old two-storey … is still but it is not suited for horses without a number of innovations. There is the added danger of fire when a large amount of hay is stored above the stalls. Newer single-storey barns are usually easier and cheaper to build and maintain. Hay storage is cheaper when built on the end of the barn rather than on the second storey.
Standing … are used to house horses, especially of draft horse breeds. Horses, which are exercised daily, get along well with standing stalls. The horse can be tied forward with a chain or rope that passes through the manger and is attached to a weighly block of wood. Horses can also be allowed to stand loose in a standing stall with two chains across the open end. If the stalls are wide enough, horses can go into the stall and turn around.
Free-stall, open-sided housing works well to maintain horses in an open-air atmosphere while providing some … from rain. Free-stall buildings are often used to house a band of mares or a group of horses that get along well together.
Indoor … areas are an excellent addition to a horse facility, especially when the horses are housed indoors for a long time regular exercise is essential.