A Criação de pequenos animais em domicílios urbanos e rurais no estado de Alagoas

Abstract

LIMA, Karoline Peixoto de. A criação de pequenos animais em domicílios urbanos e rurais no estado de Alagoas. Rio Largo: CECA/UFAL, 2022. 22p. (Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso de Zootecnia). The objective was to evaluate the breeding of domestic animals in households in Alagoas during the pandemic, verifying whether there was an increase or decrease in the creation of these animals, raising the aspects of technical assistance and if the tutors are aware of the role of the zootechnician. The research was carried out from the collection of data, in a quantitative research format, through a questionnaire, developed and sent by the Google Forms program to emails, between June and August 2021. All participants are students from the Centro de Ciências Agrárias- CECA, UFAL. We obtained 61 people as a response to the questionnaire, most of them students of the Animal Science course. Most respondents are urban residents, 82.5% living in houses. 42.6% stated that their monthly per capita income was up to 1.5 times the minimum wage. Twelve types of animals were cited and 72.1% of the participants did not start creating a new animal during the pandemic, of the 27.9%, most animals were obtained by adoption. With the main reason being financial, 5 of the respondents claimed that they needed to donate the animal during the pandemic. When asking if the students raised any animals for their own consumption, we obtained 8 statements, being the animals cattle, chickens, pigs, sheep and goats. Only 7.7% of people sought the help of a zootechnician to assist in the creation of these animals. However, even being a low percentage, we concluded that all participants know the role of the zootechnician in animal husbandry.

Keywords: domestic animals; animal husbandry; pets.