Types of farming

 Capital investment and labour

1. Extensive livestock farming: the capital investment (in feed, farms, etc.) is limited and productivity low. The livestock farming is mostly cattle and sheep, and grazes on large pastures in the open air

2. Intensive livestock farmning: capital investment (in feed, farms, etc.), labour and productivity are high. Mostly atte, pigs and poultry are farmed.

Food and feedig methods

1. Grazing livestock: animals feed on grass. This is an example of extensive farming.
2. Confined livestock: animals are kept in sheds and covered pens, and eat feed. This si an example of intensive farming.

3. Semi-confined livestock: in summerr, the animals aet grass; when there is not enough grass, thy eat feed.

Mobily of livestock

1. Nomadic herding: herders and their families are constantly moving with their animals in search of good pasture.
2. Transhumance (seacional migration of livestock): herders move their animals several times a year between winter and summer.
3. Sedentary livestock farming: animal do not have to move around to obtain food because farmers give them feed.