What Animals Are Raised In South Africa

A profile of South African sustainable animate being product and greenhouse gas emissions

Norman H Casey

Department of Animate being Science, University of Pretoria

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06 September 2021

• Southward Africa has a precolonial livestock production legacy that is carried through to modern times.

• The livestock industry through its structural organizations, endorsed the land'southward commitments to the UNFCCC (1997), the Kyoto Protocol (2002), and the Paris Agreement on Climate change (2016) to actively manage greenhouse gas emission (GHGe), along the producer-to-consumer value concatenation, and to promote sustainable fauna product practices.

• The genetic base of the livestock manufacture is enriched by a combination of original indigenous and exotic cattle, sheep, goats, chickens, and swine in combination with exotic genotypes.

• The livestock industry and authorities actively support developing sustainable animal production systems aimed at reducing GHGe.

• The Southward African livestock industry acknowledges and protects the original, indigenous livestock whose adaptive traits take been incorporated in composite breeds as a component of promoting sustainable livestock production and managing GHGe emissions.

Introduction

South Africa's rich legacy of sustainable brute product reaches back centuries. Extensive animal production with cattle, sheep, and goats in pastoral systems and chickens and swine around settlements was well established amongst the African inhabitants of southern Africa before the European exploration and settlements. Brute production had migrated down Africa from the Middle-E and North Africa.

Cattle were nowadays in the Zambezi region 300 BCE and small stock at the southern tip of Africa, the Cape of Adept Hope, xx centuries ago (Maree and Plug, 1993; Bricklayer and Maule, 1960). The presence of a sustained animal industry in southern Africa for millennia emphasized that pastoral systems fit in well with the wild fauna that populated the region. The inhabitants drew sustenance from both domesticated and nondomesticated animal clusters and were sustainable despite sporadic droughts and owned livestock diseases. The livestock were physiologically and morphologically highly adjusted to the range of climatic regions and the seasonal variation of the nutritional value of natural herbage. Southern Africa with its indigenous livestock and inherent brute production practices was uniquely different from the Americas that had few domesticated animals (Stahl, 2008) and Australasia that had none (Parsonson, 2000) at the fourth dimension of the European colonization. The region had the intellectual capital letter for livestock farming with suitable types of livestock.

This article presents a contour of sustainable animal production and greenhouse gas emissions against an historical background, and the gains in animal husbandry in South Africa, which are important in the long-term context of sustainability.

Historical Background

The livestock heritage enabled a relatively quick transition from pastoralism to settled farming. Prior to European colonization, the state was held through conquest and agreements by indigenous people amassed in tribes and family units inside tribes. Grazing rights, or land-usage between tribes, was oft settled belligerently, and within tribes and among family units, by tribal community overseen by headmen or women co-ordinate to patriarchal or matriarchal societies.

The Dutch established a replenishment postal service at the Cape of Skilful Hope that became Greatcoat Boondocks in 1652 that began a steady flow of Europeans to southern Africa. The immigrants brought their legal culture, which became the norm, excluding the regions beyond the colony's borders. Amongst these was land ownership.

Growing requirements for services by passing tradeships and the increasing population in Greatcoat Town of Europeans, imported slaves and servants, and ethnic African people, stimulated the demand for nutrient and services. In the 1690s, French Huguenot refugees increased the European population. The authorities came under pressure to extend the boundaries of the settlement and lay out farms.

The land appeared to be largely uninhabited. Nomadic hunter-gatherer people commonly referred to as Bushman now recognized as the San people (SAHO), lived off the land. The Khoikhoi people were nomadic herders within distinct tribal boundaries along the southwestern regions with cattle, sheep, and goats (SAHO). They were the beginning inhabitants with livestock that the Dutch had encountered and traded. The pressure for state and expansion had caused the Cape authorities to obtain land from the Khoikhoi through bartering and agreements. Initially, farms were held under lease agreements from the Cape authorities that were later converted to freehold properties with title deeds. These farms became the centers for brute production relying on the local indigenous animals.

Many settlers became restless for political and economic reasons and prepare out trekking beyond the settlement's borders into the hinterland as pastoral farmers. Economics was an important stimulus considering the settled farms had clashed head-on with nonsustainability. By becoming itinerant graziers, that immediate problem could exist resolved. Government plant little condolement in a bunch of afoot farmers moving effectually and clashing with the African people. The boundaries of the colony were extended, farms laid out, and taxes levied.

The motion of people from the colony spread farther with more state being attained from African tribes through treaties and trade-off, compulsion, and belligerence. In the end, freehold of the land was abundantly in the hands of White people. The indigenous Khoikhoi people in the western regions and the Nguni Africans in the northern and eastern regions remained tribal bound. The African tribal areas were recognized and referred to according to the principal tribe of the regions, hence Zululand, or to the traditional paramount chief of the tribe, such as Sekhukhune-land (SAHO).

Segregation'south Impact on Optimizing Sustainable Animal Production

Racial segregation, nonofficial and official, and civil rights and thereby country-use were instituted in various forms during the colonizing period, which extended to 1994. The Cape Colony Government, under the oversight of the British Colonial Office, passed the Glen Gray Act (1894) that established systems of land tenure and labor (Thompson, 1991). The strict Apartheid system of separation, or separate development as it was euphemistically referred to, began with the Population Registration Deed (1950) by which people were officially racially classified. The Apartheid system was systematically built through a serial of legislation including the Black Administration Act (1927) (world wide web.gov.za), the Bantu Trust and Land Human action (1936) (world wide web.gov.za), the Promotion of Bantu Self Regime Deed (1959) (world wide web.gov.za), and the National States Citizen Act (1970) (www.gov.za). Africans were to become citizens of a self-governing territory, thereby forfeiting citizen rights in the rest of the Republic. Within these territories, country-use rights were allocated principally according to custom with few freehold properties. In a process of consolidating traditional tribal regions into cocky-governing territories, the government incorporated registered farms bought from commercial farmers.

Due to this long procedure of separation, the animal industry beyond South Africa had emerged into ii distinct forms: Freehold among the Whites and some Khokhoi families and immigrant Indians of the KwaZulu-Natal region; the bulk of Nguni Africans were in traditional communal land-use structures with a sprinkling of freehold farms.

Although much of the Apartheid legislation has been repealed since its abolition, the consequences prevail. Restrictions on country ownership were canceled, which opened opportunities to the broader community. Merely a few have had the ways to buy farms, while traditional land allocation and use take connected. The Restitution of State Rights Deed (1994) was introduced (www.gov.za). Attaining the envisaged successes has lagged due to a complexity of reasons, withal. These include institutional obstacles (Walker, 2012), the lack of farming and business capabilities, and socioeconomic factors such as limited access to developmental majuscule, and traditional customs. Restitution of agricultural land and associated business organisation economic imperatives (Binswanger-Mkize, 2014) are critical toward attaining optimized sustainable animal production.

Sustainable Creature Agriculture

Sustainability is a broad concept with five key constructs, adapted from Moore et al. (2017): A defined catamenia of time, connected delivery intervention strategies, maintaining behavioral modify, and adapting the program and beliefs while standing producing benefits for the system. Sustainability is essentially a nonself-perpetuating organisation requiring drivers in the manufacture. It is an open, dynamic state for which variables can alter and either advance or impair it. An inclusive definition for sustainable agronomics could be "agronomics that can evolve indefinitely toward greater human utility, efficiency of resource use, and a residue with the environment that is favourable both to humans and to most other species" (Harwood, 1990), and within norms of ethical practices (Webb, 2013). Sustainability is not an terminate, but a progression. Information technology embodies efficient resource-use and human capital, advancing genetics, nutrition and health management, structured and balanced economic systems, optimal natural resources management, and an enabling political environment. Efficiency is overarching; striving for sustainability is striving for efficient product.

Overview of Sustainable Fauna Agriculture

Utilizing the extensive rangeland with cattle, sheep, and goats is the main driver of the livestock industry producing a range of products, and sustains vast numbers of employees and dependents (Meissner et al., 2013a, 2013b).

Commercial agriculture occupies 38% of the total state area. Animal agronomics occupies 79% of the agricultural land and employs >21% of the agriculture workforce (Statistics SA, 2020). Agriculture maintained a steady two.3% of Gdp, with industry contributing 26.six%, and services 71.ii% (Plechter, 2020). The sector maintained 47% confronting field crops, 44.3%, and horticulture, 22.8% (Vink and van Rooyen, 2009).

In the extensive production sector, the prospect of growth in beef product would rely on improving production rates, while the modest stock industries (wool, meat, mohair, and karakul) have limited growth potential under current product practices. Economic conditions constrain growth in the dairy sector. The swine manufacture has limited growth prospects due to a sectoral consumer profile. The chicken industry (eggs and meat) has the greater growth prospects, though it currently faces potent contest from imported products. National sustainable animal production would gain by successful country restitution and transformation of traditional African tribal lands to units driven by business organization economic imperatives (Binswanger-Mkize, 2014).

Due south Africa has 12.8-grand cattle, 19.4-grand sheep, 3-1000 goats, ane.5-g swine (DALRRD, 2020), and 38.2-m poultry (layers 27.half dozen and broilers x.6) (SAPA, 2019). Animal production'south gross value is 46% of the agricultural gross value (Table 1). Within the sector, bovine products are xl%, poultry meat and eggs 39%, followed by ovine and caprine products, 10%.

Table 1.

Gross value of South African agricultural products in 2016

Sector	Gross value (ZAR'000)	Gross value (%)
Field crops	60,598,718	23.3
Horticultural products	79,043,004	30.four
Animal products	120,128,788	46.two
Animal products past sector	Gross value (ZAR'000)	Animal products (%)
Wool, Mohair, and Karakul pelts	four,038,902	3.iv
Ostrich products	438,903	0.4
Poultry meat	36,669,836	thirty.5
Eggs	x,191,731	viii.v
Cattle and calves slaughtered	33,003,889	27.5
Sheep and goats slaughtered	7,158,715	six.0
Swine slaughtered	5,566,721	4.6
Milk	15,659,645	13.0
Other creature products	7,400,446	6.2

Sector	Gross value (ZAR'000)	Gross value (%)
Field crops	lx,598,718	23.3
Horticultural products	79,043,004	30.iv
Animal products	120,128,788	46.2
Animal products past sector	Gross value (ZAR'000)	Animal products (%)
Wool, Mohair, and Karakul pelts	iv,038,902	3.4
Ostrich products	438,903	0.iv
Poultry meat	36,669,836	30.5
Eggs	ten,191,731	eight.5
Cattle and calves slaughtered	33,003,889	27.five
Sheep and goats slaughtered	7,158,715	6.0
Swine slaughtered	five,566,721	four.half-dozen
Milk	xv,659,645	13.0
Other fauna products	seven,400,446	6.2

Tabular array one.

Gross value of Due south African agricultural products in 2016

Sector	Gross value (ZAR'000)	Gross value (%)
Field crops	60,598,718	23.three
Horticultural products	79,043,004	thirty.4
Animal products	120,128,788	46.two
Animate being products by sector	Gross value (ZAR'000)	Animal products (%)
Wool, Mohair, and Karakul pelts	iv,038,902	3.4
Ostrich products	438,903	0.4
Poultry meat	36,669,836	30.v
Eggs	10,191,731	viii.five
Cattle and calves slaughtered	33,003,889	27.five
Sheep and goats slaughtered	7,158,715	vi.0
Swine slaughtered	v,566,721	4.6
Milk	15,659,645	thirteen.0
Other beast products	7,400,446	6.two

Sector	Gross value (ZAR'000)	Gross value (%)
Field crops	60,598,718	23.3
Horticultural products	79,043,004	30.four
Animal products	120,128,788	46.2
Animal products past sector	Gross value (ZAR'000)	Animal products (%)
Wool, Mohair, and Karakul pelts	4,038,902	iii.four
Ostrich products	438,903	0.4
Poultry meat	36,669,836	30.five
Eggs	10,191,731	8.5
Cattle and calves slaughtered	33,003,889	27.5
Sheep and goats slaughtered	seven,158,715	6.0
Swine slaughtered	5,566,721	four.6
Milk	15,659,645	13.0
Other brute products	seven,400,446	vi.two

The animal industries' sectors are structured as extensive, semi-intensive, and intensive production systems. All-encompassing primary production systems are beef, wool and meat, and mohair producing goats. A small, variable Karakul industry functions within the sheep cluster producing pelts and meat. Large numbers of beefiness cattle and a few sheep systems flow over to intensive feedlots for finishing animals to marketplace weight following the weaning period. The dairy industry uses a combination of intensive to semi-intensive production. Swine and poultry sectors are highly industrialized systems.

Extensive systems use the natural range, valuable resource that is mostly nonarable state. In addition, the animal manure and urine are distributed over the range entering the natural carbon cycle, whereas the methane and carbon dioxide constitute recycling carbon. Extensive production, notwithstanding, requires additional services that could contribute to the carbon footprint, which include veterinary support, supplementary feed where necessary such every bit licks, transport, electricity if not off-grid, and general goods and services.

Semi-extensive dairy systems use natural range or established pastures for cows in milk, dry cows, heifers, and often bulls. Intensive dairy production, feedlot feeding beef weaners, and swine and poultry production systems are entirely dependent on off-farm produced feed, supporting services and mechanized infrastructure. If one accepts that all animals use plant-based feeds and therefore recycling carbon, the net carbon footprint is ascribed to directly and indirect supporting services.

Developing Sustainability

Sustainability requires continual reassessment of fauna productivity, product quality, rangeland and supplementary feeding resource, water, and marketing channels. Hardy ethnic cattle, sheep, and goats did not fulfill the productivity expectations or the required quality of the products. Two actions were launched: Improving genetics and recording productivity. Breeds were imported to either replace the indigenous animals or to crossbreed to meliorate productivity and production quality. Imported livestock became ethnic past virtue of their adapted physiology and morphology, choice for productivity traits, and past crossbreeding with ethnic livestock. The officially recognized indigenous livestock (Tabular array two) are either the original types or developed types based on the original types frequently with exotic genotypes incorporated. Examples are the composite Bonsmara cattle breed and the Dorper meat sheep breed. The imported Western farsi and Karakul sheep are considered to have the correct attributes for farming in South Africa'due south harsh, semidesert regions.

Tabular array 2.

Indigenous breeds of cattle, sheep, goats, swine, and poultry

Cattle	Sheep	Sheep	Goats	Swine	Poultry
Original	Original	Developed	Original	Original	Original
Afrikaner	Afrikaner	Afrino	Savannah	Black ethnic	Naked Nek
Nguni	Bapedi Damara Nguni	Bezuidenhout Dohne Merino Dormer Dorper S A Merino S A Mutton Meatmaster Van Rooy			Venda
Developed	Imported		Developed	Developed	Adult
Bonsmara	Western farsi		Kalahari	Kolbroek	Koekoek
Drakensberger	Karakul		Boer Goat	Robuster	SA Ross
Huguenot				Windsnyer

Cattle	Sheep	Sheep	Goats	Swine	Poultry
Original	Original	Developed	Original	Original	Original
Afrikaner	Afrikaner	Afrino	Savannah	Black ethnic	Naked Nek
Nguni	Bapedi Damara Nguni	Bezuidenhout Dohne Merino Dormer Dorper Due south A Merino S A Mutton Meatmaster Van Rooy			Venda
Developed	Imported		Developed	Developed	Developed
Bonsmara	Persian		Kalahari	Kolbroek	Koekoek
Drakensberger	Karakul		Boer Goat	Robuster	SA Ross
Huguenot				Windsnyer

Table 2.

Ethnic breeds of cattle, sheep, goats, swine, and poultry

Cattle	Sheep	Sheep	Goats	Swine	Poultry
Original	Original	Developed	Original	Original	Original
Afrikaner	Afrikaner	Afrino	Savannah	Blackness indigenous	Naked Nek
Nguni	Bapedi Damara Nguni	Bezuidenhout Dohne Merino Dormer Dorper S A Merino S A Mutton Meatmaster Van Rooy			Venda
Developed	Imported		Developed	Adult	Developed
Bonsmara	Persian		Kalahari	Kolbroek	Koekoek
Drakensberger	Karakul		Boer Caprine animal	Robuster	SA Ross
Huguenot				Windsnyer

Cattle	Sheep	Sheep	Goats	Swine	Poultry
Original	Original	Developed	Original	Original	Original
Afrikaner	Afrikaner	Afrino	Savannah	Black indigenous	Naked Nek
Nguni	Bapedi Damara Nguni	Bezuidenhout Dohne Merino Dormer Dorper S A Merino S A Mutton Meatmaster Van Rooy			Venda
Developed	Imported		Adult	Adult	Developed
Bonsmara	Persian		Kalahari	Kolbroek	Koekoek
Drakensberger	Karakul		Boer Goat	Robuster	SA Ross
Huguenot				Windsnyer

Cattle Production

Ethnic cattle breeds, collectively the Sanga with feature servico-thoracic humps, were multipurpose, providing sustenance, wealth, or status and an integral part of social and spiritual customs. The Afrikaner cattle (Sanga) impressed the settlers with their size, thriving on harsh, thin vegetation of the semidesert, their fertility, calving with ease, and raising healthy calves. They were milked for household apply, were first-class draught animals, and were tolerant of ticks, endoparasites, and the endemic diseases. Nguni cattle of the eastern regions were less impressive mainly due to a smaller size, simply were equally endowed with the survival traits for the African bush.

Afrikaner cattle were the original backbone of the cattle industry. However, the European settler-farmers were of the stance that the indigenous cattle, despite their adaptive attributes, did not exhibit beefiness and dairy product traits as those of European breeds. The importation began of beefiness, dual-purpose, and dairy breeds. Imported breeds had been selected for specific productivity traits in their corresponding regions of origin. In Africa, these breeds had to bargain with the environment and endemic diseases. This gave ascension to important changes in the beefiness and dairy industries: Genetic choice inside breeds for hardiness and productivity; crossbreeding with indigenous cattle, mainly the Afrikaner breed to consolidate hardiness and productivity traits. The procedure leads to scientific research and the development of veterinary medicines and safe treatments to control parasites and endemic diseases.

The observation of Bosman (1932) that "the increment in Native-endemic stock is significant equally it is related to a subtract in cattle losses due to disease, drought and exposure, and this one would expect to influence favourably the European-owned stock rather than the less cared-for Native-owned stock. The opposite is, however, the case," placed the inherent value of the indigenous cattle in perspective. Schoeman (1989) concluded that ethnic cattle may be more production efficient than exotic breeds. The genetic admixture of the Sanga is a basis for their genetic improvement (Makina et al., 2016), while their value in composite breeds has been widely demonstrated as in the Bonsmara breed (Bosman et al., 2017), which has emerged as the about numerous beef brood.

Importing European cattle breeds, developing composite breeds such as the Bonsmara cattle (Webb, 2009), and importing composite breeds from Australia and Brazil connected to expand the cattle population diversity. Breed societies were established to enhance a breed's epitome through cattle shows and operation data. State initiated performance-recording schemes, including carcass and meat, and milk quality assessments, and artificial reproduction technologies were launched, with discernible consequences of improved production efficiency in meat and dairy production. Regrettably, besides large a number of the beef manufacture on both freehold farms and communal systems do not benefit from performance recording. Nonparticipation in performance recording due to reluctance, nonservices, education, and socioeconomic factors peculiarly in the deep rural areas could be a major hindrance to developing and maintaining sustainable brute product.

Semi-intensive and intensive systems can bulldoze production efficiencies. Feedlots remove cattle from the extensive rangeland for custom feeding; dairy system combines genetic choice with specified nutrition. Improved general husbandry increases yields per lactation and fewer lactations per cow.

Intensive and semi-intensive systems have an added cost of reliance on off-farm feeds and services. Intensification has raised the stakes on animal welfare. Veterinary services take increased to deal with product-related pathologies. In these systems, environmental stressors tin can take debilitating, disruptive furnishings on the livestock'southward endocrine organization (Bova et al., 2014). In addition, metabolic modifiers such as Zilpaterol hydrochloride approved in South Africa in 1997 for use in beefiness cattle (Montgomery et al., 2009) and recombinant bovine somatotropin (r-bST) for use in dairy cattle (Erasmus and Webb, 2013) influence the animals' physiology, and if not managed correctly, may have impacts on the environs.

Expansion of the beef industry is attainable, particularly with extensive production. This would increment the sustainability and the amount of product produced. Economic factors hamper the expansion of dairy production; the full number of dairy farms has decreased with an increase in the size of farms. Efficiency in the beef and dairy industries is improving, which is driven past supplementary and designer nutrition, constant review of genomics, physiological and morphological observations such as claw quality (Van Marle-Köster et al., 2019), and full general animate being husbandry. The average size of a dairy herd in South Africa is 459 cows in milk, placing S Africa second on an international comparative listing, with Saudi Arabia at the top with 7139 cows and New Zealand 3rd with 416 cows followed past Commonwealth of australia with 274 cows (IFCN, 2019).

Small Stock

Sheep and goats take similar historical developments to cattle. Sheep and goats are primary pastoral animals in term of numbers and the extent of the range occupied. Ethnic sheep and goats are yet farmed with breed societies supporting the efforts. Fat and lean-tailed sheep breeds are small framed with localized fat deposits and had curt-haired pelts with minimal wool, first-class morphological and physiological traits for enduring the environmental rigors. The products were mutton, fatty rendered for food and manufacture and skins for various manufactured items. Yet, South Africa required a sheep breed that has first-class meat production traits of carcass quality, fertility and suitability for arid conditions. The Dorper was adult from exotic British Dorset Horn and the Blackhead Persian breeds (Hugo, 1966). The Dorper is highly successful locally and internationally.

The importation of Escorial Merinos in 1789 changed the sheep industry (Hugo, 1966) that was followed with farther importations of Merino sheep from Saxony, Escorial, and Negretti. The environs of the Karoo region produced excellent fine wool. Today, the South. A. Merino and derivatives such as the S. A. Mutton Merino plant the largest proportion of sheep followed by the Dorper.

Unimproved indigenous or Savannah goats of varying sizes, coats, and patterns abound in the rural African areas. The Boer goat, a descendant by pick of its carcass size and prolificacy with a distinct red caput and white body (black heads besides occur), is an international standard for a meat goat (Casey and van Niekerk, 1988; Van Niekerk and Casey, 1988), with desirable female person reproduction traits (Greyling, 2000). The milk caprine animal industry is relatively small producing milk for a select market and goat cheese for consign.

The Angora goat, renowned for its high-quality mohair, is the gem in the crown of the caprine animal manufacture. Mohair production is solely on extensive dry, shrub-regions. In some instances, farmers go on their kidding does on pastures irrigated from groundwater. The industry is internationally well-established producing threescore% of the global clip. The kickoff genetic textile by way of a meaning doe arrived in SA in 1838 from Turkey. Importations were desultory to 1880 (Hugo, 1966). Production, genetics, and product quality traits are well researched in Southward Africa, indicating the emphasis on developing the industry further (Visser and Van Marle-Köster, 2014; Snyman, 2020).

Every bit with cattle, the state, brood societies, and structured industries sponsor breeding and selection, enquiry into optimum nutrition, and marketing of primary and secondary products. Expansion of modest stock in numbers is limited due to the conveying capacity of the natural rangeland, which varies past climatic weather.

Nonruminant-Intensive Systems

Optimum beast husbandry practices for the species make up one's mind the approach to developing intensive sustainable animal production. Determining factors are keeping large numbers of animals on small areas, either on open pastures or in corals every bit with ostriches, sheltered housing that could be totally or partially enclosed as with swine and chickens, or a combination of open areas and housing. Crocodile farming requires an open pool and lounging expanse.

Highly mechanized intensive animal enterprises encompass challenges of ane) providing scientifically determined feed for all stages of development, 2) high-density populations that tin result in induced social stress and the hazard of pathologies, and 3) concentrated, mechanized, waste product management. Feed, from production to feeding, is an off-farm enterprise as a feature of the Holocene Era where humans increasingly develop additional practices to back up what would have been natural processes. Even free-range commercial systems are not entirely free-range. Free-ranging poultry and swine are present in villages and rural areas, where swine nowadays a threat of zoonotic pathologies, in particular Taenia solium and Cysticercosis.

The swine industry does not rely on indigenous swine that are characteristically early-maturing, fat animals. These animals take the indigenous adaptive and survival traits, but growth rates and feed conversion practise not match those of adult genotypes, which prevail. The industry is highly organized with upstanding standards and class standards for all carcasses that pass through registered abattoirs. Visser (2014) presented a comprehensive overview of South Africa'due south swine industry.

Poultry egg and broiler industries are intensive in-door systems with the egg industry accommodating a few semi-intensive systems that are considered free-range production. The manufacture is based on imported, highly productive genotypes. Housing is either semi-open up-sided or entirely enclosed. These systems, as noted with swine, take a high reliance on off-farm feed supplies, and the inevitable waste. Indigenous chickens are kept equally scavenging or true free-range survivors. Indigenous chickens have high rut and humidity tolerances (Garces et al., 2001), are fertile, and are protective mothers. Since they are free-ranging, these birds do not suffer the pathologies associated with caged birds such as lameness and cannibalism, though they are pretty competitive. The indigenous poultry are prone to parasites, but weather condition the inconveniences well.

Egg and broiler production are the fastest expanding sustainable animal production systems, facilitated past the opportunity of many farmers including those in communal farming regions to obtain chickens from centralized convenance and incubation localities. Scientific development is driven by nutrition (macro and micronutrients) and the control of pathologies. Commercial genetic material for high producing genotypes is produced through international convenance companies. Genetic fabric for locally developed breeds that are mainly dual-purpose types is of local origin.

Ostrich and crocodile farming are classed in the exotic leather industry. Ostriches are true indigenous game-poultry and remain wild continually expressing their temperaments, though they may become habituated. South Africa is renowned for its ostrich industry. Notwithstanding, competitive production is increasing in many countries. The industry is semi-intensive. Breeding clusters, usually a male to ii females, are kept in open corals, the eggs are hatched in incubators, and the chicks are kept in houses or on pastures. Growing birds are kept in corals. Feed is mostly off-farm with the exception of immature birds on pastures. Waste material direction is not considered problematic since the typical product regions are dry every bit semidesert or are located in subtropical seasonal rainfall regions. Ostriches produce feathers for the fashion market and industrial use, highly valuable hides, meat, and byproducts such as shell-based items.

Ostriches are prone to a number of diseases, especially in the high-density populations and chicks (Verwoerd, 2000). The industry fluctuates: it relies on exports and diseases often cause embargoes. Contempo research in the crocodile industry has focused on nutrition (Banal et al., 2021, personal communication), incubation, quality of the hides, and pathologies (Dzoma et al., 2008, Hoffman et al., 2000, Huchzermeyer, 2002).

Expansion of intensive sustainable creature production appears abundant for the poultry industry. The relative low per capita consumption of pork due to cultural preferences limits expansion of the swine industry. The ostrich industry has shrunk severely over the past decades due mainly to disease related prohibitions on imports. The crocodile industry is relatively modest, but is in a growth phase.

Managing the Production Environs

The extensive production environment ranges from high rainfall, loftier carrying capacity to the reverse with scrub forage. Managing this vast range requires expertise in rangeland direction, soil conservation, agricultural meteorology, and creature husbandry. Managing water similarly requires h2o conservation, supply, and quality management applications (Casey et al., 1996, 2016; Scholtz et al., 2013).

Managing Health and Welfare

Managing wellness and welfare in all sectors of the formal livestock manufacture is washed by adherence to the prescribed veterinary regulations, and with the assist of a veterinary inspector in the communal and small-scale farming regions. Each of the manufacture sectors such as the red meat, wool, mohair, dairy, swine, and poultry producers has codes of conduct for animal health and welfare, and product quality. Various legislations regulate the traceability of livestock and livestock products. Legislation enforces the control of infectious, vector-borne parasitic and zoonotic diseases.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Southward Africa is the 14th largest correspondent to greenhouse gas emissions (GHGe) mainly due to its reliance on coal (www.carbonbrief.org). The country is committed to monitoring and reducing GHGe, having endorsed the United nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1997 and the Kyoto Protocol in 2002, and ratified the Paris Agreement on Climate change in 2016 (www.environs.gov.za).

Monitoring and quantifying GHGe are intended to identify sources with the further intention to reduce the emissions, thereby contributing to reducing the furnishings they have on the global climate. Quantifying GHGe is beset however by uncertainties (Jonas et al., 2019). These include as adapted from Jonas et al. (2019), accurately and precisely accounting for emissions in space and time, complying with emission reduction commitments, considering risks of temperature targets, evaluating mitigation and adaptation strategies, and potentially trading emission permits. Information technology is important to deal with the quantifications according to a structured framework to alleviate the uncertainties, as these authors advise (Jonas et al., 2019).

The GHG CO_2e in Southward Africa reported in the Third Assessment Study, 2000–2015 (GHG NIR SA, 2015) excluding agriculture, forestry, and other state-use data (AFOLU) increased from 2001 (442,247 Gg) to 2015 (544,746 Gg) past 23.18%. Including the AFOLU sector, the net increase was twenty.28%. The differences, which could exist ascribed to mitigation by the AFOLU as a carbon sink, were 2.94% in 2001 and 5.13% in 2015. Managed pastures, rangelands, wood, and crops are well-recognized carbon sinks that could mitigate a proportion of national GHGe, and more than specifically the AFOLU emissions. The issue remains that AFOLU emissions are a combination of emissions from beast and tillage plus that of services. The carbon emissions from animals and tillage are cyclical and largely in balance. Services emit fossil carbon that in essence is not cyclical.

Enteric Fermentation

The enteric fermentation digestive processes past which plant material is broken down in herbivores, and by the cecum digesters, equines and swine, produce methane as a byproduct. Estimates of enteric fermentation CO_2e for the animal sectors listed in Table iii, were derived from applying the IPCC 2006 equation x.20 and the values derived by Du Toit (2013a–d) and Moeletsi and Tongwane (2015). It is of import to note that the study presents the comment that the differences betwixt data tin be ascribed to nonstandard methodologies to calculate CO_2e. South Africa has not developed their own estimate equations of enteric fermentation emission for these animals and relied on Australian equations, since the countries have similar animal product environments (GHG NIR SA, 2015).

Tabular array 3.

Trend and relative contribution of the various livestock categories to the enteric fermentation emissions between 2000 and 2015

	Emissions (Gg CO2e)		Alter 2000 to 2015		Share of enteric fermentation (%)
	2000	2015	Values	%	2000	2015
Cattle—dairy	2,470	2,272	−198	−8.0	9.26	8.78
Cattle—nondairy	xviii,348	eighteen,233	−115	−0.half-dozen	68.80	70.45
Sheep	3,801	3,391	−410	−10.eight	14.25	13.10
Goats	907	755	−152	−16.eight	three.40	2.92
Horses	102	119	17	sixteen.7	0.38	0.46
Mules and asses	34	36	2	5.nine	0.13	0.14
Swine	44	xl	−four	−9.1	0.sixteen	0.xv
Other (game)	961	1,036	75	7.8	3.threescore	four.00
	26,667	25,882	−785	−14.93	100.00	100.00

	Emissions (Gg CO2e)		Change 2000 to 2015		Share of enteric fermentation (%)
	2000	2015	Values	%	2000	2015
Cattle—dairy	2,470	2,272	−198	−viii.0	ix.26	8.78
Cattle—nondairy	eighteen,348	18,233	−115	−0.six	68.eighty	70.45
Sheep	3,801	3,391	−410	−10.eight	fourteen.25	13.10
Goats	907	755	−152	−16.viii	3.xl	2.92
Horses	102	119	17	16.7	0.38	0.46
Mules and asses	34	36	2	five.9	0.13	0.14
Swine	44	xl	−iv	−9.i	0.xvi	0.15
Other (game)	961	1,036	75	7.8	three.threescore	4.00
	26,667	25,882	−785	−14.93	100.00	100.00

Tabular array iii.

Tendency and relative contribution of the various livestock categories to the enteric fermentation emissions between 2000 and 2015

	Emissions (Gg CO2e)		Alter 2000 to 2015		Share of enteric fermentation (%)
	2000	2015	Values	%	2000	2015
Cattle—dairy	2,470	2,272	−198	−8.0	nine.26	8.78
Cattle—nondairy	18,348	18,233	−115	−0.6	68.80	lxx.45
Sheep	3,801	3,391	−410	−10.8	xiv.25	13.10
Goats	907	755	−152	−16.8	3.xl	2.92
Horses	102	119	17	sixteen.seven	0.38	0.46
Mules and asses	34	36	2	five.ix	0.13	0.xiv
Swine	44	40	−4	−ix.i	0.16	0.15
Other (game)	961	ane,036	75	vii.8	three.lx	4.00
	26,667	25,882	−785	−14.93	100.00	100.00

	Emissions (Gg CO2e)		Modify 2000 to 2015		Share of enteric fermentation (%)
	2000	2015	Values	%	2000	2015
Cattle—dairy	two,470	2,272	−198	−8.0	9.26	eight.78
Cattle—nondairy	18,348	18,233	−115	−0.6	68.80	70.45
Sheep	3,801	iii,391	−410	−10.8	xiv.25	13.10
Goats	907	755	−152	−16.8	three.40	2.92
Horses	102	119	17	16.7	0.38	0.46
Mules and asses	34	36	2	5.9	0.13	0.xiv
Swine	44	40	−4	−9.1	0.16	0.xv
Other (game)	961	1,036	75	7.8	3.60	4.00
	26,667	25,882	−785	−14.93	100.00	100.00

The GHG NIR SA (2015) study notes that "In 2015 the enteric fermentation category contributed 25 881Gg CO₂e (Table three). Not-dairy and dairy cattle contributed 18 233 881Gg CO₂e (lxx.45%) and ii 727 Gg CO₂e (8.8 %) respectively to the enteric fermentation category. Emissions from horses, mules and asses, and other (game) increased between 2000 and 2015, while emissions from all other livestock declined. The largest reject was seen in the enteric fermentation from sheep, which declined past 10.8 % over the xv-year menstruum. These emission trends declined by 2.9% since 2000 to 2015."

The GHG NIR SA (2015) report did not include poultry, which left out a livestock sector that constitutes 39 % of the gross value of animal products. Poultry however have comparatively low enteric emissions, which were placed in perspective in the data of Monteney et al. (2001) cited by Dunkley and Dunkley (2013) in which the percentages of the combined emissions were respectively dairy cattle 56.5%, beefiness cattle 29.6%, swine xi,vii%, and poultry four.four%. The fraction of poultry enteric fermentation emissions becomes a significant contribution to national enteric fermentation emissions from livestock considering the numbers of birds that constitute 39% of the gross value of animal products.

Comparative Data

Comparative data suggest that South Africa'due south animal GHGe (GHG NIR SA, 2015) are within the reported ranges. If the CO_2e for cattle is taken as the average emission kg CO_2e/kg, the value for S Africa is sixteen.26 kg CO_2e/kg, which compares well with the 16.25 kg CO_2e/kg given past Dunkley and Dunkley (2013), and for swine, 3.14 kg CO_2e/kg compares well with the cited values. The similarities in estimated kg CO_2e/kg on national or regional scales stand to reason since the equations are the IPCC (2006) versions. A review of the equations for the three Tiers could effect in dissimilar outcomes. However, the aforementioned dilemma of the equations being the mutual denominator would occur. Thomas et al. (2011) noted the involvement past the creature production manufacture is of import in developing new technologies for quantifying GHGe.

Differences could event when the emissions are related to different animal farming systems within a sector. Hagemann et al. (2012) as a sequence to Hagemann et al. (2011) noted that estimates of GHGe equally a consequence of milk production, exercise not business relationship for the diversity of systems. Numerous authors have raised the betoken of bookkeeping for variety.

A series of articles that presented the estimates of direct GHGe of the four creature sectors of the beefiness cattle, small stock, game and monogastric industries (Van Niekerk and Hassen, 2009; Du Toit et al., 2013a–d; Hassen et al., 2015), laid a foundation for subsequent analyses of animal GHGe. The authors had selected Tier 2 methodologies quote IPCC (2006) "that requires detailed country-specific data on gross energy intake and methane conversion factors for specific animal categories. The Tier 2 method should exist used if enteric fermentation is a key source category for the fauna category that represents a large portion of the country's full emissions." Tier ii offers countries the opportunity to develop methodology specifically for national, regional and sectoral circumstances in society to minimize uncertainties of GHGe.

Two South African studies on GHGe on production practices on dairy farms (Reinecke and Casey, 2017) and a comparing of beef and dairy practices (Tongwane and Moeletsi, 2020) emphasized the demand to scrutinize product practices. The sometime authors reported a range of GHGe in CO_ii-eq amongst dairy subcontract direction systems with various methodological approaches. They recommended more than detailed equations to estimate emissions as a tool to improving the associated environmental impacts. In terms of format, detailed not-linear equations delivered credible biologically realistic emission values. Linear equations showed larger prediction variation of GHGe. They concluded that the accounting methodologies applied to predict GHGe could be practical across dairy farm direction systems to quantify the carbon footprint of dairy production in South Africa.

Tongwane and Moeletsi (2020) reported dairy cattle emitted more enteric CH_four than communal subsistence and commercial beefiness cattle. In relation to the respective populations, the commercial beef sector accounted for 48 % of enteric CH₄ emission, subsistence cattle 36 % and dairy cattle 17 %. Farther, relating to sustainable animal production, they noted apparent improving cattle product efficiencies indicated past emission factors and emissions per free energy-corrected milk and animal carcass weight. Both sets of authors recommended that monitoring GHGe could be useful to monitor production efficiencies. Improving production efficiency would reduce GHGe (Scholtz et al., 2013). However, due to express resources, socioeconomic and political circumstances, a large part of the livestock industry is faced with overriding issues of survival, which would require concerted efforts to transform product practices.

Policy Framework

Due south Africa's governance framework is based on a Constitution that prescribes three levels of executive dominance: national, provincial and metropolitan. National authority is in many cases devolved to the provinces, for example, veterinary services nationally resides under the national section, just devolved say-so permits provincial departments to bargain with provincial affairs.

The following selection of legislation applies to the topic at mitt. Since the legislations are amended periodically, the basic reference certificate is cited. Amendments may exist sourced at www.gov.za:

Agricultural Production Standards, Act 119, 1990

Agricultural Research, Act 86, 1990

Animate being Diseases, Human action 35, 1984

Animal Health, Act, 7, 2002

Animal Identification, Act 6, 2002

Creature Improvement, Act, 62, 1998

Climatic change Bill, 2018

Conservation of Agricultural Resources, Act 43, 1983

Fertilizers, Farm Feeds, Agricultural Remedies and Stock Remedies, Act 36, 1947

Genetically Modified Organisms, Act fifteen, 1997

Meat Safety, Act 40, 2000

Medicines and Related Substances Control, Human activity 101, 1965

National Climate change Adaptation Strategy (Typhoon), 2019

National Environmental Management: Air Quality Act 39, 2004 (GHGe)

National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Deed x, 2004

National H2o Act, 36, 1998

All natural scientists in practice are required to register with the South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions (Act 27, 2003), and all persons practicing in the veterinary field annals with the Veterinary and Para-Veterinary Professions (Act 19, 1982).

Conclusion

Due south Africa maintains a healthy mental attitude toward sustainable animal production systems that is supported through legislation, commitments of industry sectors, and private- and government-sponsored research. Against the background of South Africa'south colonial development, the animal product industry supports socio-economic and political adaptations to irresolute circumstances. Sustainable animal production in all aspects will only result if all participants in animal production are supported and empowered.

Almost the Author

Norman Casey, emeritus professor in Brute Science at the University of Pretoria, graduated BSc (Agric) and MSc (Agric) at the University of Natal and attained a DSc (Agric) at the University of Pretoria. He is a registered professional animal scientist with the Due south African Council for Natural Scientific Professions, Pr. Sci. Nat. (Anim. Sci.). He practices in livestock production physiology, although his bookish work extends into associated fields, including tertiary education in the broader field of livestock production. He has held numerous offices in academia and in the scientific community including president of the statutory South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions and of the Globe Association for Animal Production.

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