Zoo animal husbandry aims at constantly improving husbandry, reproductive success and ultimately animal welfare. Nevertheless, analyses to determine factors influencing husbandry of different species are rare. The relative life expectancy (rLE; life expectancy (LE) as proportion of longevity) describes husbandry success of captive populations. Correlating rLE with biological characteristics of ...

Recent studies suggest that human activities have accelerated the production and emissions of reactive nitrogen on a global scale. Increased nitrogen emissions may lead to environmental impacts including photochemical air pollution, reduced visibility, changes in biodiversity, and stratospheric ozone depletion. Emissions from agricultural activities, both crop and animal, are known to contain r...

Quantifying and simulating the relationships between crop growth, total-nitrogen (total-N) and nitrate-N (NO3--N) concentration can improve crop nutritional husbandry. In this study, the relationship between shoot relative growth rate (RGR) and shoot total-N, organic-N and NO3--N concentration of hydroponically-grown lettuce (Lactuca sativa var. capitata L. cv. Kennedy) was described and simula...

Tef, Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter, is the most important cereal in Ethiopia. Tef is cultivated by more than five million small-scale farmers annually and constitutes the staple food for more than half of the population of 80 million. The crop is preferred by both farmers and consumers due to its beneficial traits associated with its agronomy and utilization. The genetic and phenotypic diversi...

Responsibilities they are given in relation to rat care and management. 3 Handling rats for routine husbandry should not be linked with ie neither proceed.R. rattus black rat is less aggressive than Norway rats and have been replaced by. Published reports of nutritional and breeding research. Neuroanatomical.HUSBANDRY STANDARDS FOR KEEPING NAKEDMOLE RATS IN. PDF created with pdfFactory trial ve...

Heritability of egg size is approximately 60%-a very high value compared to the heritability of most other economic characters-and indicates that individual selection for egg size is to be preferred to family selection. A further simplification of the problem of changing the egg size of a flock by breeding selection is possible as a result of a study of genetic correlations between the weights ...

agricultural training centres (atcs) promote crop and livestock development by providing extension information to farmers and serving as models of improved crop and livestock husbandry practices. although potato farmers in nyandarua county were trained on potato production technologies, their average yield was ≤16 tonnes per hectare compared to the national potential of 30 tonnes. this study th...

This guideline, developed by the Office International des Epizooties for the monitoring of the quantities of antimicrobials used in animal husbandry, provides the methodology required to assess the amounts of antimicrobials used, to supply data to be used for risk analysis and to improve guidance on the appropriate use of antimicrobials. Information may be gathered from a number of sources, suc...

There are a number of requirements by which animals should be managed so that the best performance is achieved in a way acceptable to those responsible for the care of the animals and to the community generally. These requirements are the keys to good management and may be used to test the management of a poultry enterprise in relation to the standard of its management. These requirements are a...