title: The most important causes for quantitative and qualitative losses during breeding and turnover before slaughtering of farm animals.
abstract: The present review article deals with the current knowledge on the most important reasons of quantitative and qualitative losses during breeding and turnover before slaughtering of farm animals. At present, the profitability of every economic activity of people is an indispensable necessity. As regards farm animals there are many factors, seemingly banal ones, that determine the final economical effect and satisfaction of such activity. Many essential errors are made by producers as a result of ignorance or not complying with the basic needs of their behaviour. The turnover only deepens these neglects. The most essential limitations of these quantitative and qualitative losses are the proper selection and joining of the animals as well as an exact knowledge and complying with their natural behaviour. Such activity decreases animal stress, improves a proper welfare and consequently increases economical effects considerably.
authors.affiliation: Department of Commodities of Animal Row Materials, Faculty of Animal Bioengineering, University of Warmia and Mazury, Oczapowskiego 5, 10-719 Olsztyn, Poland. denabj@poczta.onet.pl
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Denaburski
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bak
mesh_terms: D000003:Abattoirs; D000383:Agriculture / Q000191:economics* / Q000592:standards; D000822:Animal Husbandry; D000827:Animal Welfare; D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D001947:Breeding / Q000191:economics* / Q000592:standards