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Animal Domestication

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ANIMAL DOMESTICATION

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Why were animals domesticated?

Why has confinement been successful?

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Cattle Types

bos taurus

  • Aurochs (Europe)
  • Celtic Shorthorn (British Isles)
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Bos Indicus

  • humped
  • disease resistant
  • heat tolerant

What uses are there for cattle?

Cattle History

Swine

  • Sus scrofa (European wild boar)
  • Sus vitttus (east Indian)

History

  • food Neolithic Age
  • Chinese
  • Columbus
  • Hernando DeSoto
  • English
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Where is swine production today?

Why are most raised here?
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Sheep

  • Neolithic age
  • Fabrics in Sweden
  • Spain & England
  • 200+ breeds

Ancestors to modern sheep

  • Moufflons
  • asiatic urial
Photo by Rennett Stowe

Sheep History

  • Big Horn
  • Columbus
  • Merino, Cortez
  • British Breeds to VA 1609

Sheep in The u.s.

  • 1810 North East
  • 1840 19 million head
  • What is the sheep population like today?
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Identify breeds of Sheep & Their Purpose

Goats

  • Asia
  • Pasang & Grecian Ibex
  • Markhors & Tahrs
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History

  • Arrived from Switzerland
  • Cpt. John Smith to VA & New England
  • Angora from Turkey
  • Post 1900 increases
  • Today meat on rise
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Sheep vs. Goats

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Horses

  • Eohippus
  • C. Aisa & Persia 3000BC
  • Egyptions 1600 B.C.
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New World

  • 1493 Columbus
  • Cortez to MX 1519
  • DeSoto 1539
  • US Colonists
  • 1700s sport
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Poultry

What is included?
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Gallus gallus

  • Jungle fowl India

Turkeys

  • US variety
  • Mexico Variety
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Ducks

  • wild mallard ducks
  • Anas boschas
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Domestication

  • Chinese 1400BC
  • India 1000BC
  • Jamestown
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American Poultry Assocation

  • 1873 formed
  • 1850s first shows

Production

  • family operations
  • 1800s specialization
  • confinement, corporate
  • Where in US?
  • Where in MO?
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