LICENSURE EXAMINATION FOR AGRICULTURIST twenty twenty-five LECTURE NOTES FOR ANIMAL SCIENCE
LICENSURE EXAMINATION FOR AGRICULTURIST twenty twenty-five LECTURE NOTES FOR ANIMAL SCIENCE
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Economic Importance of Animals and By-Products: Provide food (meat, milk, eggs), fertilizer, transport, clothing, decoration, amusement, animal feed, income and employment, and draft power for farming.
Domestication began approximately ten thousand years ago in the Neolithic period when humans selectively bred animals for food, labor, and companionship. Key species include:
o Dogs (approximately fifteen thousand years ago, Asia) first animal domesticated o Sheep (approximately ten thousand years ago, Middle East) first domesticated farm animal o Goats (approximately ten thousand years ago, Near East and Fertile Crescent)
o Pigs (approximately nine thousand years ago, Eurasia)
o Horses (approximately five thousand five hundred years ago, Central Asia)
o Chickens (approximately eight thousand years ago, Southeast Asia)
o Ducks (approximately four thousand years ago, China)
o Buffalo (approximately five thousand years ago, South Asia)
As of twenty twenty-four, the world population is eight point zero two billion, with twenty-six point five billion chickens, one point five seven billion cattle, and seven hundred seventy-eight million pigs globally.
The Philippines has one hundred nineteen point one million people, and the most consumed meat is chicken, followed by pork and beef.
Western Visayas - Top region for Native or Improved Chicken (in birds)
Central Luzon - Top region for Broiler Chicken (in birds)
CALABARZON - Top region for Layer Chicken (in birds)
Additional Chicken Inventory Information
Additional Chicken Inventory Information
One. Highest chicken producer (liveweight) - Bulacan (one hundred ninety-four point five seven thousand MT)
Two. Total chicken population - two hundred two point eight two million birds
Three. Classification that dominates broiler inventory:
o Broiler - ninety-eight percent Commercial (seventy million birds)
o Layer - ninety-five point eight percent Commercial (forty-five point two million birds)
o Native or Improved - ninety-eight point seven percent Smallhold (eighty-seven point two million birds)
Province with the highest beef production - Bukidnon