Assessment of cattle owners' perceptions and expectations, and identification of constraints on production in a peri-urban, resource-poor environment

dc.contributor.authorDreyer, K.
dc.contributor.authorFourie, L.J.
dc.contributor.authorKok, D.J.
dc.contributor.editorVerwoerd, Daniel Wynand
dc.date.accessioned2012-10-01T11:50:35Z
dc.date.available2012-10-01T11:50:35Z
dc.date.created2012
dc.date.issued1999
dc.descriptionThe articles have been scanned in colour with a HP Scanjet 5590; 600dpi. Adobe Acrobat v.9 was used to OCR the text and also for the merging and conversion to the final presentation PDF-format.en
dc.description.abstractThis questionnaire survey was conducted amongst 200 farmers in the resource-poor, urban and periurban environments of Botshabelo and Thaba Nchu towns in the Free State Province of South Africa. The questionnaire was divided into seven sections, namely demography, livestock, cattle, parasites, parasite control, livestock diseases and problems experienced. A total of 87,5 % of the livestock owners were not employed (unemployed or pensioner) . Cattle constituted more than 50% of the livestock units owned in the area and farmers owned an average of 9,33 ± 0,812 head of cattle. A total of 193 (96,5 %) of the farmers indicated that milk was the most important product from their cattle. Only 26 % of them slaughtered their own cattle for meat consumption. Eighty-eight percent of them indicated that external parasites on their livestock presented a problem, but only 72,9 % of farmers implemented any tick control measures. Less than half (45 ,5 %) of the farmers who attempted to control ticks used commercial acaricides. The remainder used various other methods, including the application of used engine oil and household detergents. Amongst the clinical diseases observed in their cattle, dry gallsickness was mentioned most often (20%) . This figure, however, is believed to be inaccurate because dry gallsickness may be a clinical manifestation of some of the other diseases mentioned by the farmers , such as anaplasmosis, foreign body obstruction of the gastro-intestinal tract by plastic bags, pneumonia and mastitis. Animal husbandry problems experienced by the farmers included pollution (i.e. ingestion of plastic bags and string by their livestock) , availability of water and theft.en
dc.description.librarianmn2012en
dc.description.sponsorshipFoundation for Research Development. University of the Orange Free State.en
dc.identifier.citationDreyer, K, Fourie, LJ & Kok, DJ 1999, 'Assessment of cattle owners' perceptions and expectations, and identification of constraints on production in a peri-urban, resource-poor environment’. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 95-102.en
dc.identifier.issn0330-2465
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/19937
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherPublished by the Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort Veterinary Instituteen
dc.rights© ARC-Onderstepoort (original). © University of Pretoria. Dept of Library Services (digital).en
dc.subjectVeterinary medicineen
dc.subjectCattle ownersen
dc.subjectPeri-urban environmenten
dc.subjectQuestionnaire surveyen
dc.subjectResource-poor environmenten
dc.subject.lcshVeterinary medicine -- South Africa
dc.subject.lcshVeterinary medicine -- Researchen
dc.titleAssessment of cattle owners' perceptions and expectations, and identification of constraints on production in a peri-urban, resource-poor environmenten
dc.typeArticleen

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