Free communications livestock farming systems

Date: 06 June ‘05; 14:00 - 18:00 hours
Chairperson: Hermansen (DK)

Theatre

• Characterization of farms in winter cattle fattening, Argentine (Castaldo, A., J. Martos, D. Valerio, R. Acero, A. García and J. Pamio)

• Sustainable technical index for bio-economic farm models in Pampean region Argentine (Martos, J., A. García, R. Acero, D. Valerio, V. Rodríguez and J. Perea)

• Animal production systems in Algeria: transformation and tendencies in the area of Sétif (Abbas, K.)

• Evaluation of smallholder pig production systems in North Vietnam considering input, management, output and comparing economic and biological efficiency (Lemke, U., L.T. Thuy, B. Kaufmann and A. Valle Zárate)

• Analysis of the beef cattle growth curves in the main livestock systems of the Basque Country (Ruiz, R., A. Igarzabal, N. Mandaluniz, M.E. Amenabar and L.M. Oregui)

• Indigenous selection criteria in Ankole cattle and different production systems in Uganda (Wurzinger, M., D. Ndumu, R. Baumung, A. Drucker, O. Mwai and J. Sölkner)

• Concentration of conjugated linoleic acid in grazing sheep and goat milk (Tsiplakou, E., K. Mountzouris and G. Zervas)

• Revitalizing livelihoods of tsunami victims in Aceh, Indonesia through flood risk sensitive livestock development (Wollny, C.B.A. and G. Tesfahun)

Poster

• The development of milk production in dairy farms in Saudi Arabia (Alshaikh, M.A.)

• An investigation on the angora goat raising in Ankara of Turkey (Soysal, M.I., E.K. Gürcan, E. Özkan, M. Aytac and S. Özkan)

• HERDYN: a dynamic model to simulate herd dynamics in beef cattle extensive systems (Bernués Jal, A., R. Ruiz and D. Villalba)

• Comparative study on the behaviour of four goose genotypes during the preconditioning for laying (Molnár, M., I. Nagy, T. Molnár, K. Tisza and F. Bogenfürst)

• Herbage from wet semi-natural meadows: 2. Nutrient content of some dominating species during different parts of the season (Spörndly, E., Z. Lifvendahl, Å. Berg and T. Gustafson)

• Herbage from wet semi-natural meadows: 1. Digestibility of hay harvested late to protect bird life (Spörndly, E., I. Olsson and K. Holtenius)

• Reproductive, survival and growth traits of the crossbreeding Belgian Texel x Moroccan local breeds of sheep (El Fadili, M. and P.L. Leroy)

• Comparison of small and large size dairy cows in a pasture-based production system (Steiger Burgos, M., R. Petermann, P. Hofstetter, P. Thomet, S. Kohler, A. Muenger, J.W. Blum and P. Kunz)

• Daytime maintenance and social behaviours during suckling period in jennies reared under semi-extensive conditions (D'Alessandro, A.G., D. Casamassima, G. Martemucci, N. Simone and G.E. Colella)

• Application of discriminant analysis to the morphostructural differentiation of 7 extensive goat breeds of extensive (Luque, M., E. Rodero, F. Peña, A. García and M. Herrera)

• Size versus beauty: farmers’ choices in a ranking experiment with African Ankole Long-Horned Cattle (Ndumu, D., M. Wurzinger, R. Baumung, A. Drucker, O. Mwai and J. Sölkner)