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• Analysis of the management of game feeding grounds based on the data of the Hungarian National Game Management Database: Papers presented at the „Timely questions in grassland and game management” scientific conference (Hungarian Academy of Sciences – Kaposvár University, 18-19 May 2006)

  51-61

  Krisztina Sonkoly

  Robert Lehoczki

  Sandor Csanyi

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  120

  One effect of the intensive management of forest and agricultural lands is the disappearance of the natural habitats of game species. The purpose of the management of game crop fields and meadows, as well as the feeding of game, is to compensate the shortage of food supply and to reduce game damage on cultivated lands.
  Game managers expect to increase the density and the harvestable game through the systematic and professional cultivation of food plantings and game feeding. Furthermore, it is hoped that these parctices result in higher incomes for game management.
  This study is based on the data of the Hungarian National Game Management Database for the period from 1997 to 2004. The paper shows the changes of the areas of game crop fields and the amounts of game feed used in Hungary. Furthermore, the correlations between game feeding parameters and the estimated and harvested numbers of the game species were investigated.
  Our results show relatively low statistical relation between the game feeding and the density of the game.

• The role of grasslands in natural and farm-like game management: Papers presented at the „Timely questions in grassland and game management” scientific conference (Hungarian Academy of Sciences – Kaposvár University, 18-19 May 2006)

  25-33

  Geza Nagy

  Laszlo Szendrei

  Peter Gyure

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  111

  This paper investigates the relationship between grasslands and game management. It focuses on three questions:
  - grasslands as habitats for game,
  - grasslands as sites for prolification,
  - grasslands as sources of nutrition.
  Five so-called big, and five so-called small game species were considered, based on my own research and a literature review. Main results and consequences:
  - grasslands as ecosystems are more important in game management than as solely resources of nutrients,
  - compared to their territorial proportions, grasslands play a 2-3 time grates role in game management,
  - grasslands are more preferred on areas where vegetation types are frequently changing (a given vegetation occupies only a small area),
  - there is a remarkable seasonality in grassland use of small game, spring being the peak season,
  - classification of game considering grasslands as sources of nutrients:
  I. grasslands are hardly eaten by: red deer, wild pig, wild ducks
  II. grass is consumed, but it is not a main source of nutrients: for fallow deer
  III. grass is consumed as frequently as other forages by roe deer, wild sheep
  IV. grasslands are important feeding sites for pheasants, partridges
  V. grass is the main forage for hares, wild ducks

• The economic questions concerning the game management of hunting parks: Papers presented at the „Timely questions in grassland and game management” scientific conference (Hungarian Academy of Sciences – Kaposvár University, 18-19 May 2006)

  47-50

  Janos Nagy

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  99

  In the last twenty years, there has been a major change in Hungarian game management, and it became a profit-oriented activity.
  This is especially true in game parks, where we would like to have very high quality stock. This is only insured through a proper level of feeding. Although many hunting areas have pasture land, they are uncultivated lands with very low production.
  At the Bőszénfa hunting park, we studied the economy of normal feed production (maize, sorghum, cabbage), and realised that pasture management can be a valuable possibility for feed production.
  With pasture, we could save up to 20% of our costs, and the entire management became simpler to organise.