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Sheep pocket guide [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Evaluation of feeding requirements of dairy sheep

open access: yes, 2005
The special issue refers to the following topics:-milk composition as a tool to perform correctly the feeding requirement of dairy sheep;-a critical review of main systems for the evaluation of nutritive requirements and a proposal of new approaches ...
Scipioni, Rosanna   +2 more
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Net mineral requirements for the growth and maintenance of Somali lambs

open access: yesAnimal, 2019
Minerals are limiting factors in animal production, and the knowledge of mineral requirements for livestock is crucial to the success of a commercial enterprise.
E.S. Pereira   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Metazoan-protozoan parasite co-infections and host body weight in St Kilda Soay sheep [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
For hundreds of years, the unmanaged Soay sheep population on St Kilda has survived despite enduring presumably deleterious co-infections of helminth, protozoan and arthropod parasites and intermittent periods of starvation.
Tempest, L. J.   +3 more
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Feeding cassava foliage to sheep [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The potential of cassava foliage (Manihot esculenta Crantz) as a protein-rich feed in sheep production in Vietnam was examined by studying cassava foliage yield, hydrogen cyanide (HCN) content, toxicity and performance of lambs fed the foliage as a ...
Hue, Khuc Thi
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Indirect costs of sheep depredation by large carnivores in Sweden

open access: yesWildlife Society Bulletin, 2019
Carnivore depredation gives rise to direct costs for killed and injured animals as well as indirect costs due to productivity losses and additional labor requirements.
Marit Widman   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

FEASIBILITY OF INTEGRATING SHEEP AND CROPS WITH SMALLHOLDER RUBBER PRODUCTION SYSTEMS IN INDONESIA [PDF]

open access: yes
Diversified production systems are considered important tools for stabilizing the income of smallholder rubber producers in Indonesia. Based on empirical data collected from smallholder rubber producers in the Nucleus Estate Smallholder (NES) development
San, Nu Nu, Deaton, Brady J.
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GESTATION LENGTH OF KARI SHEEP [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Previously, the concept of a gestation period of sheep shorter than 121 days was unheard of in the field of sheep biology. Our findings during a farmers’ survey in the Lotkho area of Chitral, Pakistan, revealed that the sheep native to the region,
Sohail Ahmad
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Mineral requirements for growth of wool and hair lambs

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Zootecnia, 2013
The present study was conducted to determine the body composition and the mineral requirements for growth of wool and hair lambs. A total of 34 castrated lambs with an initial body weight (BW) of 19.9±0.8 kg were used; 17 of these lambs were of the ...
Izabelle Auxiliadora Molina de Almeida Teixeira   +5 more
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Carcass and meat quality of “Leccese” breed lambs suckling from ewes fed diets containing vegetable by-pass protein

open access: yesItalian Journal of Animal Science, 2011
It is considered necessary to supplement the majority of dietary proteins for the rearing of goats and sheep (Pulina et al., 1990; Robinson, 1987). In ruminants, 70 % of protein requirement is satisfied by cytoplasmic synthesised protein, while the ...
A. Tateo, P. Centoducati
doaj   +1 more source

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