Stockmanship And Social Behaviour

1. Handling can have a economical significance?

True

False

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3. What kind of person makes the best stockman?

Reserved introvert

Confident introvert

Reserved extrovert

Confident extrovert

4. Pigs that were handled gently

More approachable

Had more piglets per litter

Less piglet mortality

Came into puberty earlier

Had high plasma cortisol levels

Were restless

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5. Select all of the correct answers. what are the disadvantages to being social and living in groups?

Groups attract predators

Groups attract disease and parasitism

Aggression

Sharing of scarce food

All of the above

6. Common dairy shed problems include

Slippery floors

Stray voltage

Breast rail too low

Inadequate head room

Pressure on cows in yards

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7. Cattle that were handled gently

Had decreased lameness

Had shorter walking and flight distances

Approached humans more willingly

Enter the dairy shed quicker

Relaxed and still in shed

Defecated and urinated more in the shed

Let down milk quicker

Increased milk production

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8. Match them up

personal/ individual distance

social distance

working/ flight distance

territory

home range

social stress

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9. Match them up

dominance

unidirectional hierarchy

triangular hierarchy

despotic hierarchy

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