Dairy Barn Farm Shop North Houghton, Stockbridge, Hampshire SO20 6LF, 01264 811405 dairybarn.co.uk Native and rare-breed (Dexter and Belted Galloway in terms of cows alone) meats produced from the farm's own, traditionally reared, herds.
Bush Farm, Wiltshire (01747 830 263, bisonfarm.co.uk) sells meat from a naturally reared herd that grazes in North American style.
Their traditional way of life is centred around rearing large herds of cattle, which provide them with financial security and relative prosperity.
We ascribe this (at least for the two first groups) to a bias in the database registration, resulting in some heifer-rearing herds being included in Group 2, adding to the within-group variation.
Pigs reared in herds in Central China had true prevalence estimates that were higher compared with pigs reared in herds in the North and South of the country.
As a consequence, the latter group consisted of herds rearing calves or young stock smallholders ("hobby" farmers), as well as regular beef herds.
The team behind Pitt Cue are obsessed, rearing their own herd of fatty rare-breed pigs in Cornwall, crucial to the beautiful pulled pork that helped establish them as one of the best barbecue restaurants in the country.
The swine exhibited at agricultural fairs and livestock exhibitions account for a small but distinct subset of the US swine herd, frequently reared in very small herds as part of youth educational programs (29 ) and generally segregated from swine reared for commercial pork production.
An earlier study of the same camel herds had indicated that peri-urban camel herds rear their own heifer replacements (Bebe et al. 2007).
Cubicle refusal behaviour, i.e. lying outside the cubicles, was analysed by logistic regression using rearing accommodation of heifers, herd size, heifer age, and housing layout as independent variables, and herd as a clustering variable.
Cows were sired by 128 AI bulls and reared in 309 herds.
