ON A NEW BLACK DRAUGHT.

Draught Animal Power

Effects of inbreeding and other systematic effects on fertility of Black Forest Draught horses in Germany

BACKGROUND The Black Forest Draught horse (BFDH) is an endangered German coldblood breed with its origin in the area of the Black Forest in South Germany. In this retrospective study, the influence of the inbreeding coefficient on foaling rates was investigated using records from ten breeding seasons. Due to the small population size of BFDH, the level of inbreeding is increasing and may have a...

Draught animals and welfare.

In fifty developing countries, which contain half of the total human population of the world, there is a heavy dependence on draught animals as an energy source. These animals are used for agriculture operations in 52% of cultivated areas of the world, as well as for hauling 25 million carts. This situation is likely to continue for at least another fifty years. The work performed annually by t...

A New Draught Proposal for the Calibration of Sound in Cinema rooms. (21/1/12)

The cinema industry standards for the calibration of both commercial cinemas and professional dubbing theatres seem, to a growing number of professionals, to be lagging behind the current state of the art for achieving both better overall sound quality and better room-to-room compatibility. In a presentation in late 2010 to the UK's Institute of Acoustics [1] it was clearly shown how the curren...

Effect of airflow direction on human perception of draught

Forty subjects, 20 women and 20 men, were exposed to airflows from five different directions: horizontally towards the front, the back, and the left side and vertically upwards and downwards. The subjects were exposed to stepwise increased air velocities ranging from less than 0.10 m/s to 0.40 m/s at three temperature levels 20, 23 and 26 o C. The results showed that airflow direction has an im...