Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
move to sidebar hide. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Drovers in Australia c. 1870 Drovers in New Zealand c. 1950 A modern small-scale cattle drive in New Mexico, U.S. Droving is the practice of walking livestock over long distances. It is a type of herding, often associated with cattle, in which case it is a cattle drive (particularly in the US).
The term cattle was borrowed from Anglo-Norman catel (replacing native Old English terms like kine, now considered archaic, poetic, or dialectal), [1] itself from Medieval Latin capitale 'principal sum of money, capital', itself derived in turn from Latin caput 'head'.
Herding is the act of bringing individual animals together into a group , maintaining the group, and moving the group from place to place—or any combination of those. Herding can refer either to the process of animals forming herds in the wild, or to human intervention forming herds for some purpose.
Articles relating to herding, the act of bringing individual animals together into a group , maintaining the group, and moving the group from place to place—or any combination of those. Subcategories
Throughout most of human prehistory and history, the primary means of livestock transportation was by droving.The reason was usually either for seasonal grazing movement (to move them to a summer grazing range or to move them to an overwintering range or shelter) or to bring them to market of one form or another, whether bartering livestock (between farmers) or selling them (whether as stores ...
The drought overtaxed Vietnam's modest irrigation systems which were also damaged in the floods. In addition, the floods reportedly reduced herds of cattle by 20 percent. The size of this loss was indirectly confirmed in Vietnamese statistics that showed a levelling off of growth in livestock inventories (particularly of cattle) between 1978 ...
Cattle feedlot in Colorado, United States. Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, or other products.It includes day-to-day care, management, production, nutrition, selective breeding, and the raising of livestock.