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Sheep Movement Networks and the Transmission of Infectious Diseases [PDF]

, 2010
Background and Methodology: Various approaches have been used to investigate how properties of farm contact networks impact on the transmission of infectious diseases.
Nicholas J. Savill, Nicholas J Savill, Woolhouse Mark E. J., Mark E J Woolhouse, Volkova Victoriya V., Savill, Nicholas J., Howey Richard, Savill Nicholas J., Mark E. J. Woolhouse, Howey, Richard, Victoriya V Volkova, Victoriya V. Volkova, Volkova, Victoriya V., Richard Howey, Woolhouse, Mark E. J.; id_orcid   +14 more
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Molecular Detection of Giardia duodenalis in a Symptomatic Domestic Sheep Flock and Preliminary Surveillance in Wild Mouflon (Ovis gmelini ophion) in Cyprus

Parasitologia
(1) Background: Giardia duodenalis is a common protozoan parasite infecting various mammalian hosts, yet data on its prevalence in Cypriot ruminants, including the endemic and protected mouflon (Ovis gmelini ophion), remain absent.
Kyriacos A. Hasapis, Catherine O’Dowd Phanis, Chad Schou, Iris Charalambidou, Stefanie Kazamia, Eleftherios Hadjisterkotis, Nicolaos Kassinis, Panagiotis Karanis   +7 more
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Seroepidemiological study of Q fever in domestic ruminants in semi-extensive grazing systems

BMC Veterinary Research, 2010
Background Q fever, a worldwide zoonotic disease caused by Coxiella burnetii, is endemic in northern Spain where it has been reported as responsible for large series of human pneumonia cases and domestic ruminants' reproductive disorders.
Atxaerandio Raquel, Hurtado Ana, Barandika Jesús F, Astobiza Ianire, Ruiz-Fons Francisco, Juste Ramón A, García-Pérez Ana L   +6 more
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Digestibility of Edible Domestic Waste by Sheep

Journal of Dairy Science, 1982
Abstract Seven young rams, equipped with simple cannulae in rumen, duodenum, and terminal ileum, were fed diets that contained 90% edible domestic waste (experimental group) or concentrate of grains and soybean meal (control group) and 10% pelleted wheat straw in a crossover-design metabolism trial.
A. Hasdai, D. Ben-Ghedalia
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Breeding with resistant rams leads to rapid control of classical scrapie in affected sheep flocks [PDF]

, 2011
Susceptibility to scrapie, a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy in sheep, is modulated by the genetic make-up of the sheep. Scrapie control policies, based on selecting animals of resistant genotype for breeding, have recently been adopted by the ...
van Roermund, H.J.W., Bas Engel, Lucien JM van Keulen, Roermund, H.J.W., van, Gonnie Nodelijk, van Roermund Herman JW, Vellema, P., Herman JW van Roermund, Vellema Piet, Engel, B., Thomas J Hagenaars, Nodelijk Gonnie, Engel Bas, Keulen, L.J.M., van, Hagenaars, T.H.J., van Keulen, L.J.M., Nodelijk, G., Piet Vellema, Hagenaars Thomas J, van Keulen Lucien JM   +19 more
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Long-term dynamics of Mycoplasma conjunctivae at the wildlife-livestock interface in the Pyrenees.

PLoS ONE, 2017
Functional roles of domestic and wild host populations in infectious keratoconjunctivitis (IKC) epidemiology have been extensively discussed claiming a domestic reservoir for the more susceptible wild hosts, however, based on limited data.
Xavier Fernández-Aguilar, Oscar Cabezón, Joachim Frey, Roser Velarde, Emmanuel Serrano, Andreu Colom-Cadena, Giuseppina Gelormini, Ignasi Marco, Gregorio Mentaberre, Santiago Lavín, Jorge Ramón López-Olvera   +10 more
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The welfare and production implications of fostering methods in sheep [PDF]

Fostering is a method used by shepherds that allows the successful rearing of abandoned lambs onto other ewes, or the ability to provide surplus lambs a new mother in the case of triplets.
Ward, Samantha
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Sheep pocket guide [PDF]

, 1996
AS-989; This pocket guide on sheep production is designed as an aid to basic sheep management practices in tOday's sheep business. It would be impossible to design a guide to meet every producer's operation; however, the recommendations and guidelines ...
Haugen, Roger G.
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Ovis aries, the domestic sheep

, 2008
Sheep, wild as well as domestic, are medium-sized bovids, and are thus even-toed ruminants with horns in both sexes. The majority of sheep sculptures represent domestic sheep. Wild sheep seem to figure only in Indus Valley sculptures (c. 2,600-1,700 B.C.E.) and in narrative reliefs, such as those illustrating the Miracle of Sravasti from Greater ...
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Seed dispersal dynamics in northern Iran: a comparative analysis of native large mammals and domestic sheep

BMC Ecology and Evolution
Background Seed dispersal through endozoochory plays a fundamental role in maintaining plant population dynamics, genetic connectivity, and habitat resilience, particularly in mountainous biodiversity hotspots.
Zahra Shakoori, Farid Salmanpour, Mehdi Kia, Faraham Ahmadzadeh   +3 more
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