LIVESTOCK FEEDING

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 165, 27 May 1940, Page 6

LIVESTOCK FEEDING

THE HUMAN ELEMENT SYMPATHETIC TREATMENT The ways of some people are such that they may attract or repel farm animals. The quiet, kindly, sympathetic individual will, as a rule, take carc of and feed successfully whatever animals are given to his or her charge. The rough, cranky, illtempered or unsympathetic individual is, as a rule, a poor hand to feed domestic animals. The successful feeder likes the work of feeding, and the association of the animals he feeds. The feeder deals with a highly organised, sensitive animal system, an animal system that is capable of being influenced by external factors. For instance, noise, rough treatment, cold, exposure to storms, worrying by dogs, and such like, are all known to have an evil influence on the nerves and digestive systems of domestic animals. Study successful feeders, and it •will be found that, as a rule, they are good-natured and quiet men or boys, capable of bearing goodwill towards domestic livestock. Poor feeding by people not having the required love or interest in the work is, in a large measure, responsible for so much scrub stock through the country. To be a successful feeder, one must have a love for animals, sufficiently strongly developed to make any sacrific? required for their comfort and well-being.