Smaller heart girths are undesirable, because they can allow bad conformation in the front feet (feet toe out, for instance), they cannot do well in grass alone, and are an overall high maintenance animal.
Eventually, as soldiers and loggers replaced their elephants with machines, festivals became the best way owners could turn a profit on such high-maintenance animals.
Some low-maintenance animals are goldfish, rabbits, cats, and leopard geckos.
After your parents have seen how you look after your small pets, slowly move onto the bigger, more high-maintenance animals.
Other than care and feeding, reindeer are a relatively low-maintenance animal the other 11 months of the year, Mr. Nau said.
Even if you have a low-maintenance animal, it's still advisable to wash him/her every so often.
Looking at your family's ability to care for one can determine whether you need a more low-maintenance animal or can accommodate a higher-maintenance one.
KQ assisted with animal procedures, maintenance of animal protocols, and sample/tissue collection and processing.
In fact, the primary goal in farm animal production is maintenance of animal health, fertility and growth in order to produce high-quality animal products such as meat, milk and eggs.
Experimental animal procedures were performed in accordance with the guidelines for care and maintenance of animals (Act of the Government of the Slovak Republic 2003 regulating the use of experimental animals).
