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623: On farm organic dairy sheep and goat breeding in Germany

Rahmann, Gerold (2002) On farm organic dairy sheep and goat breeding in Germany. Paper presented at IFOAM 2002 14th Organic World Congress "Cultivating Communities", Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 21-28 August, 2002; Published in Proceeding of the 14th IFOAM Organic World Congress, page pp. 94-94.

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Summary

In the period from 1992 to 1998 the fat and protein yield of both flocks could be increased. A specific breeding strategy had an important contribution to the increase but the environmental impacts on animal productivity is enormous (e.g. the very wet summer season 1994). A wrong decision in breeding bucks (dairy sheep in 1992-1994) had an negative effect on the productivity.

Document Language:English
Keywords:livestock, breeding, dairy sheep, dairy goats, on farm research
Subject Areas: Animal husbandry > Production systems > Sheep and goats
Animal husbandry > Breeding and genetics
Research affiliation: Germany > Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries - VTI > Institute of Organic Farming - OEL
Orgprints ID Number:623
Contact:Rahmann, Prof. Dr. Gerold
Deposited On:03 June 2003
EPrint Type:Conference paper
Published?:Published
Online at:http://www.oel.fal.de/downloads/publikationen/pub_rahmann/082_organic_sheep_goat_breeding.pdf
Peer Review Status:Not peer-reviewed
Related Links:http://www.cog.ca/ifoam2002, http://www.cog.ca/ifoam2002/Pressemitteilung.pdf, http://www.oel.fal.de/index.htm?page=/fachgebiete/default.htm

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