Research Project

Responsible

  • Johann Tost
  • Bernhard Hörning
  • Detlef Fölsch

Duration

1997 – 2000

Investigation of the species-specific behaviour of bulls in the herd

Projekttext

An investigation on the behaviour of a semi-wild cattle herd with bulls of several age classes was carried out. Recommendations for the husbandry of breeding bulls were made according to their species-specific behaviour. These recommendations were implemented in practice and evaluated.

Publications

  • Tost, J., Hörning, B., Fölsch, D.W. (2001): Reaktionen von Bullen unterschiedlichen Alters auf verschiedene Annäherungsmethoden durch den Menschen bei Extensivhaltung. 32. Int. Tag. ‚Angewandte Ethologie‘, Freiburg, 09.-11.11., Aktuelle Arbeiten zur Artgemäßen Tierhaltung 2000, KTBL-Schrift 403, KTBL, Darmstadt,  63-70
  • Tost, J., Hörning, B. (2001): Sexual competition among bulls of different age and seasonal changes in male sexual behaviour in a herd of beef suckler cattle. In: Mench, J. et al. (eds.): Proc. 35. Int. Congr. ISAE (Int. Soc. of Applied Ethology), 04.-08.08., Davis, Kalifornien, 85
  • Tost, J., Hörning, B. (2001): Vocalisation of bulls in a herd of free-ranging beef suckler cattle kept under almost natural conditions. In: Apfelbach, R., Fendt, M., Krämer, S., Siemers, B.M. (eds.): Contr. 27. Int. Ethol. Conf. (Int. Council of Ethologists), 22.-29.08., Tübingen, Ethology (Advances in Ethology; 36, Supplements to Ethology), Blackwell, Berlin, Wien, Östereich, 276
  • Tost, J. (2000): Das Verhalten erwachsener Bullen in einer semi-natürlich gehaltenen Rinderherde mit annähernd natürlicher Alters- und Geschlechtsstruktur – Vergleiche mit dem Verhalten anderer bovinae anhand der Literatur. Diss. agr. Universität Kassel Dissertation (0,9 MB)
  • Tost, J., Hörning, B. (2000): Sozialverhalten von Bullen in einer Rinderherde mit ganzjähriger Freilandhaltung und annähernd natürlicher Alters- und Geschlechtsstruktur. 31. Int. Tag. ‚Angewandte Ethologie‘, Freiburg, 18.-20.11., KTBL-Schrift 391, KTBL, Darmstadt, 16-25
  • Tost, J., Hörning, B. (2000): Aspects of social and sexual behaviour of differently aged bulls in an extensively kept herd. In: Ramos, A., Pinheiro Machado F°, L.C., Hötzel, J.M. (eds.): Proc. 34th Int. Cong. ISAE (Int. Soc. Applied Ethology) 17.-20.10., Florianopolis, Brasilien, 204
  • Tost, J., Hörning, B. (2000): Bull behaviour in an organic beef-suckler herd (Bos taurus) kept under almost natural conditions. In: Alföldi, T., Lockeretz, W., Niggli, U. (eds.): Proc.13th Int. IFOAM Conf. (Int. Fed. Org. Agr. Movements), Basel, 28.-31.08., vdf Hochschulverlag, Zürich, Schweiz, 336

Further publications in the German agricultural press under:
Publications between 1993 and 2007