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Dissertation
Horns in cattle - implications of keeping horned cattle or not
(2013-03-21)
Literaturreview zum Thema Behornung und Enthornung bei Rindern,Qualitative und quantitative Befragung von Landwirten zur Enthornungspraxis, Untersuchung zur Auswirkung von unterschiedlichen Vorwartehofgrößen auf die Herzfrequenz und die agonistischen Interaktionen von eher ranghohen und eher rangniedrigen horntragenden Milchkühen, Untersuchung zur Auswirkung von zeitlich begrenztem Weidegang auf die Herzfrequenz, die Herzfrequenzvariabilität und die agonistischen Interaktionen von horntragenden Milchkühen im Laufstall
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Exploratory and dust-bathing behaviour in laying hens kept in commercial aviaries and furnished cages
(2013-01-18)
The aim of the present thesis was to identify management factors that affect the extent of exploratory behaviour (ground pecking, scratching) as well as quantitative and qualitative as-pects of dust-bathing behaviour in laying hens kept in commercial furnished cages (‘small group housing’) and aviaries. Based on the results, it should be considered which management measures can be recommended for farmers to enhance hen welfare.
The feasibility of direct observations of dust-bathing behaviour as well as video ...
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Status and Potential of Smallholder Livestock Production Systems in Xishuangbanna, southern P.R. China
(2013-01-23)
With Chinas rapid economic development during the last decades, the national demand for livestock products has quadrupled within the last 20 years. Most of that increase in demand has been answered by subsidized industrialized production systems, while million of smallholders, which still provide the larger share of livestock products in the country, have been neglected. Fostering those systems would help China to lower its strong urban migration streams, enhance the livelihood of poorer rural population and provide ...
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Prevalence of intestinal parasites in small ruminants and their senstivity to treatments with ethnobotanical remedies in Cholistan, Pakistan
(2013-10-16)
Livestock production contributes substantially to the livelihoods of poor rural farmers in Pakistan; strengthening pastoral communities plays an imperative role in the country’s thrive for poverty alleviation. Intestinal helminths constitute a major threat for pastoral livestock keepers in the whole country because chronic infestation leads to distinct losses in livestock productivity, particularly the growth of young animals. Synthetic anthelmintics have long been considered the only effective way of controlling ...