FOOD AND FIBER FROM ANIMALS

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FOOD AND FIBER FROM ANIMALS
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INTEREST APPROACH

• Make a list of 20 foods that you eat regularly.
  Which foods are good sources of protein?

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INTRODUCTION

• Animals play major roles in the food production
  chain
• Source of energy
• Source of vitamins and minerals
• By-products from animals
• Conservation of low quality roughages to food and
  fiber for humans
• Conservation of grains to high quality protein
  and nutrients

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LIVESTOCK CONTRIBUTION TO TOTAL WORLD PROTEIN
DEMAND

• MEAT 34.7
• MILK 33.7
• AQUATIC ANIMALS 27.2
• EGGS 4.4

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TYPICAL PROTEIN CONSUMPTION IN THE U.S. (grams
per week/person)

• MILK 760
• MEAT 299
• EGGS 50
• AQUATIC ANIMALS 30

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BASIC ANIMAL SCIENCE ENTERPRISES

• Beef cattle
• Seedstock production - purebred and crossbred
• Cow-calf commercial - feeder calf production
• Stocker backgrounding
• Feedlot - finishing

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BASIC ANIMAL SCIENCE ENTERPRISES

• Swine
• Seedstock production purebred and crossbred
• Farrow to finish
• Farrow to feeder pig
• Finishing feeder pigs

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BASIC ANIMAL SCIENCE ENTERPRISES

• Sheep
• Seedstock production purebred and crossbred
• Breeding ewe flock feeder lamb production
• Market lamb feed lots
• Ewe lock to finishing
• Range operations
• Farm flocks

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BASIC ANIMAL SCIENCE ENTERPRISES

• Dairy
• Seedstock production purebred and cross
• Milking herds
• Veal production

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BASIC ANIMAL SCIENCE ENTERPRISES

• Poultry
• Layers
• Fryers/broilers
• Turkeys
• Breeding
• Game birds

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BASIC ANIMAL SCIENCE ENTERPRISES

• Auqaculture
• Commercial fisheries
• Fish farming

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DEVELOPMENT IN THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES

• Less sophistication of livestock production
• Smaller sized units of livesotck production
• Developing nations consume large quantities of
  aquatic animals
• Amount of protein is considerable less than that
  consumed in Western nations