Sentence examples for conventional husbandry from inspiring English sources

Both strains were maintained under conventional husbandry in the Biological Services Unit of the University of Manchester.

All herds were housing pigs in conventional husbandry systems.

Three to four‐weeks‐old male Sprague‐Dawley rats (Himberg, Austria) were kept under conventional husbandry.

DNA was prepared from piglet tail clips which is a conventional husbandry practice to prevent tail biting.

Conventional pig husbandry in designated large animal rooms was carried out in enclosures that are appropriate for the respective species.

The animals had greater soil contact than those raised with conventional commercial husbandry practices.

The only drugs applied were those used in conventional animal husbandry and routine veterinary care.

One of the goals in organic compared to conventional livestock husbandry is enhancing health and welfare [ 7].

Other factors in the regression model were softness and length of the lying surface and height of free space under cubicle partitions, the proportion of overconditioned cows and a variable encoding three different combinations of region, husbandry system (organic and conventional) and breed.

Furthermore, the organic extensive husbandry adopted allows animals to live much longer than in conventional systems: according to official records, the oldest Italian cow (20 years old) lives there.

During the past few decades, different strategies including vaccination, good husbandry practice, and use of antibiotics or breeding strains less susceptible to specific diseases through conventional genetic selection have been practiced for fish disease prevention and control.