Publicación:

Hemoparásitos en ganado bovino: Etiología, ciclo bilógico, método de diagnóstico e investigaciones realizadas Anaplasma, Babesia y Tripanosoma

Resumen

In Colombia three livestock systems are identified: Meat, milk and dual-purpose system. The activity for the first is breeding, lifting and fattening, for the second specialized milking and for the third milking with the presence of the calf (Gomez & Rueda, 2011). Dairy farming is carried out in the high tropics such as Cundinamarca, Boyacá. Antioquia and Nariño in charge of specialized Bos taurus breeds such as Holstein, Jersey, Brown Swiss, Ayrshire, Norman, among other breeds (Fedegan, 2012). Dual-purpose livestock is an exploitation system oriented to the production of milk and meat, which is carried out with crossbred animals obtained from the crossings of Bos indicus and Bos taurus.This stockbreeding comprises heights between 0 to 1,000 meters above sea level (DANE, 2015).