Levantamento das práticas de manejo na criação de bezerros nos municípios de Santana do Livramento e Dom Pedrito-RS

Abstract

The future of any dairy farm depends on an adequate system of creation of calves, the concept of stewardship covers all tasks performed with animals in order to create them, keep them and make them produce. The objective of this paper is to conduct a comparative survey of management practices and evaluate different methods adopted by the producers in the creation of calves in two municipalities of Gaucho Campaign. Also sought to identify the difficulties that interfere in the development of calves, from information collected from producers in the region. The survey was conducted in two municipalities in the region of the campaign, Santana do Livramento and Dom Pedrito, Rio Grande do Sul. To achieve the proposed objectives was held a descriptive research, using non-probability samples, simple in a sampling of 16 properties, with the use of a questionnaire with open and closed questions. The data were subjected to analysis of variance and averages compared by Tukey test (F) and, at the level of 5% of significance using SPSS 11.0. We can observe that the milk producers encounter difficulties in the management of calves, mainly in power due to high cost without immediate return. The high rate of mortality is also a problem that most producers is facing.