Farming practices and respiration of animals?

Question

What is the link between them?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Very few farms have a lot of green growing plants indoors in northern winters to provide for proper supply of oxygen. We instead plan to use ventilation, even though ventilation is with extremely cold air.

It seems that animals can tolerate cold conditions better than they can tolerate high humidity that results from failure to ventilate.

We see wide open feedlots with cattle shoulder to shoulder, just a roof to shed the rain, and not much respiratory problems.

Other problems arise from ammonia wafting up from manure underfoot. Once again, ventilation that both removes the ammonia and dries the manure appears to deal adequately with this.

Where liquid manure pits are used, a special hazard, ammonia and methane being drawn back into the barn can kill anything, any one in the barn. ventilation efforts then have to be directed first to make sure that the manure pit always has a negative pressure, the barn a positive pressure.

This is so critical that this system must be sustained with battery backup or automatic generators.

Now we get to the hard part. With very cold air as ventilation, your watering system can be very hard to keep working. But that has nothing to do with respiration, other than that animals lacking water stop breathing soon too.

Tillage by comparison has almost no respiratory effects.

Farming practices have no impact on the amount of carbon a cow emits in its breath. Carbon emissions are coming from plants the cow ate, and those plants absorbed all that carbon from the air, so all told there is negligible carbon impact.

Answer 3

If it affects you, especially in the short time periods of exposure, it surly affects them. It may be a problem in the long haul but not in your short exposure, and a common sense look at a thing will give you a direction to go. If it stinks, you have fume issues and possible lung damage. You need to vent and clean more. If you are guilty of maxing out your populations in the smallest space you can, you are asking for problems. If you are not comfortable and can't see yourself spending the same amount of time in those conditions as your animals, then that needs to be fixed. If you need supplemental heat (or cooling) the system needs to be checked for fumes and byproducts of combustion, all deadly not only to the animals but to your workers and yourself. Do you have dust hazards like machine dispersed soil from field work, dry wind blown yard areas not wetted down on occation (hint), or silo dusts, or production air born debris? Do the maintenance chemicals (cleaning, painting, etc) have any fumes (chlorine, ammonia, distillates) and are you sure that in combination with animal waste products that you are not making a serious reaction from the combined materials. Do not use your stable facilities to store ANY pesticides, fertilizer, or (farm) chemicals to include fuel. Heater fuel needs to be well away from the facility for fire issues as well as contamination issues.The FDA has guidelines published to help you if you are in the USA and you will find them helpful. Keep in mind too, it is the law if you produce food irregardless of your size. An over zealous inspector can surly "guide" you, and you don't want that. Though agriculture has a great many legal exemptions to aid the farmer, that is only where it does not affect the quality of the product, and animal rights groups, legal entities as well as moral ones, will make life h**l (for good reason). It sounds as though you care enough to question, so all I can suggest is that if you question a thing, how does it affect you and will you not like it if you were in the conditions for a long time. Then look at the practices above and request materials published for the industry. They are there to guide and help.

Answer 4

Do not eat everything that you come across. Whatever you eat, offer it uto God and then only eat it. Have pure saatwik food. Remember, whatever you offer, will come back to you. You cannot get good from wrong activities. Good food alone will give good health and then alone will good thoughts arise. Once a beggar went to a house and the lady there told him, "Have a bath and come. I will serve you food." He replied, "Govindeti sadaa snaanam." (Govinda's name is the holy bath) She then said, "The Govinda's name itself will be good food for you. Have it!" If bath is Govinda the food is also Govinda. Do not have double standards. Sometimes, we have very bad thoughts. The remedy for that is good company.

Answer 5

Good farming practices requires a farmer to provide adequate ventillation. God ventillation means that fresh air is delivered to the animals at all times. Give them fresh air, water, feed and clean their bedding and  they will be happy animals. Happy animals are healthier and look great.

Answer 6

well it stands to reason that the more dust you stir up is going to cause respiratory problems... more tilling...

also warehousing of lots of animals in smaller places will cause problems..

plus more stressing the animals makes more chances for problems too..

Answer 7

Respiration by cattle during the winter housing period, and respiration by cows during milking throughout the grazing season, are the largest C outputs and account for approximately half of C outputs on farms.

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