Ciervo rojo (Cervus elaphus)
An artificial raising technique was created to develop animals to lower stress susceptibility. The technique involves removing the animals from their mothers at the age of 4 days, feeding with a milk substitute based on supplemented cow\'s milk, and then fed by surrogate mother goats and ear...
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| Publicado en: | Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias |
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| Acceso en línea: | https://bdigital.uncu.edu.ar/fichas.php?idobjeto=10717 |
| Sumario: | An artificial raising technique was created to develop animals to lower stress
susceptibility. The technique involves removing the animals from their mothers at
the age of 4 days, feeding with a milk substitute based on supplemented cow\'s
milk, and then fed by surrogate mother goats and early weaned at the age of 4 months. To
carry out the trial 4 red deer were provided by the farm of Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias.
Excellent results were obtained in terms of the gentleness of the animals and
the average growth rate of 177 grams daily gain during the first year of life. This trial was
carried out without mortality and with the animals in a good state of health. It can be
concluded that the technique was succesfull in reaching its main objective, that of
weaning under trial conditions is feasible and that surrogate mother goats are
recommended to make handling easier and to lower factory costs.
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