Sentence examples for intensive herding from inspiring English sources

Intensive herding is usually characterized by continuous tending of the herd, which also makes the herd tamer, while extensive herding is characterized by less contact with the herd.

The smaller, more intensive herds, are good candidates for disease accreditation schemes.

The perception of apathy demonstrated by owners and herders alike could also arise from the subsistence nature of extensive livestock farming in Botswana, which may not necessarily require intensive herd management.

Bollig and Gewald (2000) also note that the Herero use far less intensive herd management practices than East African pastoralists, usually herding livestock in the direction of intended pastures in the morning and relying on cattle returning at dusk for water.

All intensive herds engaged in the study were on commercial farms.

Moreover, the heritability and the genetic variance gradients across environments could entail a higher genetic response in the most intensive herd managements.

Without adaptation, fenced commercial ranching will likely increasingly fail and will tend to be replaced by less capital-intensive herding systems.

It is the first certified piece of PAN Parks Wilderness in Finland with the ambition to protect fragments of unlogged boreal forest from intensive reindeer herding.' (PAN Parks2010).

Arable farming is more labour intensive than herding with three to seven people needed to cultivate a hectare of land (Ronco et al. 1999).

The herd represented a modern intensive Danish herd with a typical modern nursery, applying batch production with all in/all out by room, dry feeding ad libitum based on soybean, barley and wheat, approximately 40 pigs per pen, partially slatted floors and mechanical ventilation with sensors for temperature and humidity with covering in pens.

In most cases: the more intensive the herd management for milk yield, the larger the heritability.