LIVESTOCK MANAGEMENT
LIVESTOCK MANAG
Taking proper care of
animals according to modern husbandry practices; it includes breeding, feeding,
housing, management and development.
IMPORTANCE OF LIVESTOCK
Livestock Provide
- Food of biological value such as meat, milk and eggs.
- Market for pasturage and other unmarketable roughages
- Home market for marketable roughage and grains
- Valuable commercial goods for domestic consumption as wel1 as export such as skin, wool and bones.
- Motive power about 85 % for Agricultural operations and means of transportations.
- Farmyard manure for soil fertility and control of soil erosion.
DOMESTICATION / HISTORY OF LIVESTOCK
The domestication of
livestock was a great success of man in controlling over his environment. Domestication
of food producing animal was the great source protein for him and these animals
were also the consumer of that food which were useless for men. These animals
converted those useless foods in to useful products for men. The domestication
of’ some animals like horse bull also provided the speed and power to men.
1. The goats were
probably domesticated 8000-9000 years ago, and cattle, sheep sometime
thereafter.
2. There is fairly
definite proof’ that cattle had been domesticated by about 3000.-4000 B.C; or
about 5000-6000 years ago.
In past, domestication
was centered in that area’s or communities where village- farming was practiced
like hilly, grassy, open forested flanks of the near Eastern mountain ranges.
i.e. in the Palestinian, Labanese and Zagros mountains. From these primary
centers of’ domestication, the village farming and raring of basic food
producing animals spread in all direction of’ the world. In Egypt China
or at least in Northern China , village-farming
life began later. Pakistan is the lucky country in reference of’ domestication
of livestock; the best cattle species Bos
indicus found in sub-continent which is commonly known as Zebu or Hump
cattle.
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