Special Issue UNINASSAU,
ID manuscript: es2024nassau01, 2024
Doi: https://doi.org/10.32435/envsmoke2024nassau01
Environmental Smoke, e-ISSN: 2595-5527
Interdisciplinarity expanding
the paths to social well-being
(A interdisciplinaridade
ampliando os caminhos do bem-estar social)
Abstract:
VETERINARY ETHOLOGY
APPLIED TO A DAIRY GOAT HERD: CLASS REPORT
Gil Dutra Furtado1* (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5611-4814); Felipe Eduardo da Silva Sobral2
(https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1329-0057)
1Veterinarian / Maurício de Nassau University Center (UNINASSAU-PB), Av.
Pres. Epitácio Pessoa, 1213, CEP: 58039-000, João
Pessoa, Paraíba; Agronomist / Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB); Psychopedagogue / UNINTER; PhD in Psychobiology / Federal
University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Natal, Brazil.
2Veterinarian
/ UNINASSAU-PB, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil.
*Corresponding author: gdfurtado@hotmail.com
Submitted
on: 05 Aug. 2024
Accepted
on: 03 Sep. 2024
Published
on: 22 Sep. 2024
License:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Environmental stress on farm animals is a
limiting factor for all livestock farming. In this sense, the action of
professionals, such as veterinarians is essential to outline the best
management and the best actions to develop with livestock in a region.
In this manner the results from the study
performed by Furtado (2007) presented information on the behavior of dairy
goats that favor new evaluations. The influence of the environment on the
behavioral parameters of dairy goats was observed in Lajes do Cabugi, Rio Grande do Norte, on a dairy goat production
farm.
Ethology is a science that favors the
understanding of the adaptation of animals (i.e. behavior) to the environment
in which they are found. Therefore, this knowledge field helps the veterinarian
in the clinical assessment of animals’ health and well-being, promoting animal
aid to achieve greater productivity, which is one of the objectives of the
animals' actions professionals.
Through research carried out in a brief
bibliographical-secondary survey, the objective of this study is to evaluate
the recorded ethogram of a goat herd, which had been exposed at two different
times of breeding.
The environmental variations recorded at
the beginning and end of the experiment (June and September 2007) were,
respectively: i) ambient temperature 25.82ºC and
25.88 ºC; ii) relative humidity 67.48% and 66.64%. The outcome obtained with
ethogram was that the animals had many more episodes of lying under the shade
in August compared to June, as well as grazing in the shade, brooding in the
shade, standing still in the shade and walking. These results show that the
herd spent much more energy to maintain homeostasis under heat stress (FURTADO;
SILVA; TELES, 2018; GAIA et al., 2019).
It was concluded that the herd must be
relocated in terms of access to nutritional supplementation with hay and
concentrates, have access to more shaded areas and promote relocation in
grazing and stabling hours, with the aim of preventing pathologies linked to
heat stress, as well as having a better quality of life and animal well-being.
Keywords: Bioclimatology.
Goats. Ethogram.
CREDIT AUTHORSHIP CONTRIBUTION STATEMENT
GDF: Conceptualization, Practice and Writing
of the article, Translation and Review. FESS: Participated in Methodology,
Writing and Supervision.
DECLARATION
OF INTEREST
The
authors declare that there is no conflict of interest with the participants or
collaborators of this article, whether directly or indirectly.
FUNDING
SOURCE
The author declares that no funding is
applicable to this research.
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