General Livestock Management

Preparation of animals for livestock fairs and shows is a management practice that helps present animals in their best physical condition and appearance. Livestock fairs and shows are organized in many countries throughout the world to promote animal husbandry, livestock breeding, and exchange of knowledge among farmers and breeders.

Culling of livestock is an important management practice in animal husbandry that involves the removal of unproductive, diseased, old, or undesirable animals from the herd. Proper culling helps improve herd health, productivity, breeding efficiency, and farm profitability.

Organic livestock production includes natural feeding, animal welfare, organic management, preventive healthcare, and sustainable livestock farming practices.

Selection of a suitable livestock enterprise is important for obtaining maximum profit and efficient utilization of available resources. Every farmer and every locality cannot effectively adopt all types of livestock enterprises because climatic conditions, availability of feed and fodder, labour, capital, market facilities, and management practices vary from region to region.

Livestock produce and products include all useful materials, food items, and by-products obtained from domesticated animals and birds. Livestock provide valuable products such as milk, meat, eggs, wool, hides, manure, draught power, and breeding materials like semen and embryos.

Learn about goat production systems in the tropics including nomadic, transhumant, semi-intensive, and intensive systems along with their features, advantages, and management practices.

Livestock production systems are considered to be a subset of farming systems. The classification criteria are limited to three: integration with crops, relation to land, and agroecological zone.

Abnormal behaviours or bad habits shown by animals are known as vices. These behaviours may develop due to hereditary factors, improper management, nutritional deficiencies, overcrowding, stress, continuous confinement, or poor environmental conditions.

Administration of medicines in livestock animals is an important part of veterinary treatment and animal management. Medicines are administered to prevent and treat diseases, improve animal health, and maintain productivity in livestock farms.

Dehorning means the removal of well-grown horns. Disbudding means arresting horn growth at an early age, when the horn root is in the bud stage.