| Popis: |
The work "Principles of care for a mother and her sucklings" provides comprehensive information about stages before and after farrowing as well as the farrowing itself and focuses on an area, where substantial reserves exist in the breeding of animals thus pointing out room for improvement. With regard to the breadth of the topic only conventional dairy cow farming is treated in detail. Natural motherly behavior is described as well. The situation in farming of beef cattle, sheep and goats and organic livestock farming is described marginally. The main part of this work is divided between pre-farrowing stage, farrowing and post-farrowing stage. Each stage is described and the most important principles of care in that stage are mentioned. The work is complemented with a survey examining the state of industry of a narrow group of farmers. The resulsts are then consulted with recommendations in contemporary literature. |
