Livestock Behavior

Behavior in the    "Bovines"

 

Reduce stress situations as much as possible: We all know that a nervous animal cannot reach its maximum performance potential. In situations of stress occurs:

* Lower daily weight gain.
* Lower milk production.
* Loss of jealousy.
* Decreased maternal ability.
Increase in the number of fights.
Facilitate handling:
* Knowing that it is typical of bovine behavior to follow a leader when he is herded, a meek animal can be taught to act as a leader.
* Putting a board on the upper wire of the pens prevents the desire to jump.
* Using maximum sizes in the rodeos achieves mutual recognition and avoids fights by hierarchy.

* Menor aumento de peso diario.


* Menor producción de leche.



* Pérdidas de celos.

Behavior in the "Swine"

Eating behavior

 * They have the habit of hozar.
 * The snout is its main tactile organ, associated with smell are of great importance for feeding.
 * Their consumption patterns are influenced by the parenting system to which they are subjected.
 * The piglets are positioned from a nipple at the beginning of lactation and keep it until the end of it.

Communication and alarm

* Pigs are very curious, when they arrive at a new place or face strange objects they explore it in detail.
* When faced with a dangerous situation, they emit characteristic alarm sounds that alert the group.
* They usually mimic what other pigs do.
* Communicate through more than 20 different sounds and have a higher sense of hearing than sight.

Behavior in "Poultry"

uHierarchy order

* Any group of chickens will have
a hierarchical order If there is only one rooster in the group, it will occupy, so
natural, first place, and females will have a ranking below it.
If there is no rooster, hens will determine their hierarchical order with pecks
and fights that can be a bit wild.


* The clueca hen


* Occasionally, your chickens will
they will return cluecas, even if they don't have a rooster. You will know that one
hen has become clueca because it will stay in the nest and show a little
grumpy if you try to get her out of there.

* The change

* Once a year, your chickens
They will move. They will lose many feathers, and this will start at the back of the
head, then go to the back and finally descend the wings.
It will look pretty bald and then resemble a porcupine.








by: Antonio Castruita 
Mancha, Cristomy
Ortiz,Eduardo Devora, 
Jhoana Morales y 
Gabriela Ramirez.
 pecuario 2 B