Large-scale reproductive loss in sheep due to Border disease virus infection, New South Wales, Australia. [PDF]
Border disease viruses (BDV) and bovine viral diarrhoea viruses (BVDV) are members of the Pestivirus genus in the family Flaviviridae. While BVDV is one of the most significant endemic viral infections of cattle in Australia, BDV infection is generally considered to be uncommon in Australian sheep.
Parrish K +7 more
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The susceptibility of suckling lambs to zinc toxicity [PDF]
1.Suckling lambs maintained for 4 weeks on a milk-substitute diet containing 407 g Toprina yeast/kg dry matter of diet exhibited poor growth, low appetite and extensive renal damage.2.The batch of yeast used contained 2065 mg zinc/kg.3.The kidneys of lambs offered a milk diet supplemented with the same Zn content as the yeast-fed diet (32.1 mg Zn/1000 ...
N T, Davies +3 more
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Carcass characteristics and instrumental meat quality of suckling kids and lambs [PDF]
Alcalde Aldea, María Jesús +4 more
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Several local sheep breeds of the Alpine regions are in danger of extinction as a result of mountain farms being abandoned. Three fattening trials were carried out on 4 breeds of the Veneto region (Foza, Lamon, Alpagota, and Brogna) on a total of 115 ...
Giovanni Bittante +8 more
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Effect of supplementary concentrate feeding to lambs on the growth performance and body morphometry
A study was conducted to evaluate the effect of feeding concentrate to suckling lambs on their performance. Experiment comprised 40 day old suckling lambs having 1.56 kg average birth weight, with 20 female and 20 male lambs selected randomly from the ...
J D MOHANTY +4 more
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Suckling lambs meat quality influenced by oil-supplemented ewe diet
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Ceferina Vieira +5 more
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Meat quality of suckling lambs supplemented with contents of crude glycerin in creep feeding
The objective of this research was to evaluate the effect of crude glycerin in the supplement provided in creep feeding on the physico-chemical and sensory characteristics of meat from suckling lambs kept in pasture ryegrass.
Ana Carolina Ribeiro Sanquetta de Pellegrin +5 more
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Our aim was to characterize the organoleptic and nutritional properties of meat from suckling (one-month-old) and light (around three-months-old) lambs in local breeds on the Spanish Mediterranean islands, using meat from male lambs of the Mallorquina ...
Rosario Gutiérrez-Peña +6 more
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Volatile organic compounds and consumer preference for meat from suckling goat kids raised with natural or replacers milk [PDF]
Most of European Union goats are slaughtered with carcase weights between 5 kg and 11 kg. Some farmers rear kids with milk replacers to produce cheese with the dams’ milk.
Alcalde Aldea, María Jesús +6 more
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A cohort study of the associations between udder conformation, milk somatic cell count, and lamb weight in suckler ewes [PDF]
A cohort study of 67 suckler ewes from 1 farm was carried out from January to May 2010 to investigate associations between udder conformation, udder half milk somatic cell count (SCC), and lamb weight. Ewes and lambs were observed at lambing.
A.J. Bradley +21 more
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