Livestock farming

3. LIVESTOCK FARMING LIVESTOCK FARMING SYSTEMS - Livestock farming: - It is a primary sector activity based on raising animals to use them for food, extiles, as labour on agriculture and leisure activities.

- Livestock: - Groups of animals of a given species 1.

Livestock farming systems are classified according some factors: Farm size: - Extensive livestock farming: - livestock live on large areas of land occupied by pasture.

- Intensive livestock farming: - Animals live in small areas, usually in buildings - Important capital investment made in the installations.

3. LIVESTOCK FARMING 2.

Livestock mobility:

- Nomadic: Livestock continuously move from place to place looking for pasture.

- Seasonal migratory: livestock move depending on the season of the year.

- Sedentary: livestock do not move.

3. Type of diet and enclosure - Confined: animals are given compound feed (pienso)and fodder (forraje) - Unconfined: where livestock are free to move and feed on pasture.

- semi-confined: a combination of feed and pasture

3. LIVESTOCK FARMING THE MODERNISATION OF LIVESTOCK FARMING

1. CHANGES - The modernisation of this sector produce changes, the country’s own consumption had been replaced and the sales are focused on foreign markets.

- Main changes: - The mechanisation of livestock farms: It causes some effects: - Intensification of production - Reduction of labour - Disappearance of traditional systems.

- The introduction of foreign breeds that produce more meat or milk han native breeds.

- The development of specialised farms, which breed one single livestock.

3. LIVESTOCK FARMING 2. CONSEQUENCES - The modernisation has led to an increase in meat production, which means an improvement in people’s diets in developed countries.

- Negative consequences: -

The use of hormones for livestock growth Poor quality feed.

Poor living consitions for the animals The spread of disease, including mad cow disease and avian flu.