3.3 Home Sweet Home (CASE ASA)

Why should producers provide the for the basic needs of livestock they raise?

• The range of temperatures that maximizes an animal's efficiency and rate of gain. Animals will use their feed to grow instead of keep warm or stay cool.
• Increases the animal's productivity, higher rates of gain, increases income, lowers death rates
• Area where risk can be influenced- such as a foot bath for people to walk through to clean their shoes
• The technique or profession of assessing, minimizing, and preventing accidental loss to a business, as through the use of insurance, safety measures, etcetera.

What is the thermoneutral zone for animals?

• The range of temperatures that maximizes an animal's efficiency and rate of gain. Animals will use their feed to grow instead of keep warm or stay cool.
• Increases the animal's productivity, higher rates of gain, increases income, lowers death rates
• Area where risk can be influenced- such as a foot bath for people to walk through to clean their shoes
• The technique or profession of assessing, minimizing, and preventing accidental loss to a business, as through the use of insurance, safety measures, etcetera.

Using disinfectants, cleaning & sanitizing equipment, keeping facilities clean at all times is an example of:

• Preventative measure against new or returning animals to a farm
• Preventative measures against wildlife bringing diseases on to a farm
• Preventative measure against visitors to a farm
• Preventative measures against equipment and vehicles bringing diseases on to a farm

Using an animal/livestock pen or area for isolating animals if they get sick or when you bring new animals home is an example of:

• Preventative measure against new or returning animals to a farm
• Preventative measures against wildlife bringing diseases on to a farm
• Preventative measure against visitors to a farm
• Preventative measures against equipment and vehicles bringing diseases on to a farm

Good vaccination & parasite control plans are your best chances of keeping animals healthy as an example of:

• Preventative measure against new or returning animals to a farm
• Preventative measures against wildlife bringing diseases on to a farm
• Preventative measure against visitors to a farm
• Preventative measures against equipment and vehicles bringing diseases on to a farm

Risk Factors to _______________on a farm include new or returning animals, visitors, equipment, vehicles, wildlife

• biosecurity
• safety
• happiness
• firearm safety

The range of temperatures that maximizes an animal's efficiency and rate of gain. Animals will use their feed to grow instead of keep warm or stay cool.

• Homeostasis
• Thermoneutral zone
• Thermoregulation
• 90-100 F

Environmental & climate considerations for livestock include rainfall, humidity, temperatures, snowfall & wind.

• true
• False

An example of livestock producers considering the type and stage of animal to be produced would be a holstein cattle producer deciding if they're raising baby calves, milking cows, replacement heifers or bulls.

• true
• False

What are some considerations for a livestock producer in deciding on type of facility?

• Maintenance of a constant internal environment by a combination of body mechanisms.
• Local climate, producer goals (return on investment), needs of type & age of animal
• In the general sense, anything capable of causing disease, but when referred to by most veterinarians and physicians it signifies a living, microscopic, disease-producing agent such as a bacteria or virus.
• Area where risk can be influenced- such as a foot bath for people to walk through to clean their shoes