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Opportunities and Barriers for Niche Marketing of Lamb in European LFAs based on Consumer Attitudes to Product Quality [PDF]

, 2001
With commodity prices continuing to decrease and with policy constraint that farmers cannot easily increase their incomes by increasing volumes of production, they must find alternative ways to maintain their standard of living.
Ashworth, Stuart, Boutonnet, Jean-Paul, Brunori, Gianluca, Papadopoulus, Ilias, Rahmann, Gerold   +4 more
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Contrastive self-knowledge [PDF]

, 2014
In this paper, I draw on a recent account of perceptual knowledge according to which knowledge is contrastive. I extend the contrastive account of perceptual knowledge to yield a contrastive account of self-knowledge.
Sawyer, Sarah
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Willingness to pay for a local food label for lamb meat in Spain [PDF]

, 2011
The aim of the paper is to assess consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for a local food produced in a less-favoured area in the Aragon region (Spain). In particular, we examine whether consumers value lamb meat products (lamb and suckling lamb) labelled ...
de-Magistris, Tiziana, Gracia Royo, Azucena, Nayga, Rodolfo M. (Jr.)   +2 more
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Genetic Parameter Estimation for Plasma Biomarkers Associated With Energy Reserves During Critical Physiological Stages in Sheep

Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The ability of ruminants to mobilise and restore body reserves (BR) over time, referred to as BR dynamics, is currently considered an interesting biological component to be included in breeding programs targeting enhanced BR resilience. However, genetic studies of proxies for BR levels and BRD remain scarce, particularly in small ruminants ...
Agnes Nyamiel, Andres Legarra, Didier Marcon, Christian Durand, Sébastien Douls, Gaetan Bonnafe, Anne Tesnière, Eliel González‐García, Dominique Hazard   +8 more
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Effects of feeding system and CLA supplementation on animal, carcase and meat characteristics of fattened lambs and ewes

Italian Journal of Animal Science, 2021
To promote local food products could be a valuable strategy for preserving autochthonous sheep breeds. A total of 115 lambs and ewes of local sheep breeds (Alpagota, Bogna, Foza and Lamon) of the Veneto region were used to evaluate the effect of ...
Giovanni Bittante, Alessio Cecchinato, Franco Tagliapietra, Michele Pazzola, Giuseppe Massimo Vacca, Stefano Schiavon   +5 more
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Current Trends, Future Prospects and Constraints of Whole Microalgae and Their Fractions as a Functional Feed Ingredient for Animals

Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Microalgae are a highly diverse group of unicellular organisms that grow in a wide range of aquatic environments and are widely used as dietary supplements for both human and animal applications. Microalgae are rich in lipids, proteins, carbohydrates and other valuable bioactive components such as pigments, antioxidants and vitamins.
Sietse Jan Koopmans, Simon Roques, Edoardo Zaccaria, Annemarie Mens, Soumya Kanti Kar   +4 more
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Schmallenberg virus pathogenesis, tropism and interaction with the innate immune system of the host [PDF]

, 2013
Schmallenberg virus (SBV) is an emerging orthobunyavirus of ruminants associated with outbreaks of congenital malformations in aborted and stillborn animals.
A Bridgen, A Bridgen, A Kohl, AC Lowen, AJ Della-Porta, Alain Kohl, Andrew Shaw, Anna Janowicz, AR Elbers, B Hoffmann, B Xu, CA Evans, Catherine Lamm, Claudio Murgia, CM Southam, CT Walter, D Thomas, DH Cybinski, Esther Schnettler, Eva McGregor, F Arnaud, Friedemann Weber, G Barry, G Blakqori, G Blakqori, G Neumann, Gerald Barry, Ilaria M. Piras, JI Gillespie, JL Farmer, K Kupferschmidt, K Peperkamp, K Terasaki, K Wernike, KE Jones, Kerstin Hahn, KV Goller, LD Rasmussen, M Beer, M Bouloy, M Caporale, M Dominguez, M Palmarini, M Ratinier, M Spiegel, M Varela, Mandy Glass, Marco Caporale, Mariana Varela, Martin Beer, Massimo Palmarini, Melanie McFarlane, MJ Killip, MM Garigliany, MM Garigliany, NR Saunders, OR Causey, P Vialat, PJ Hotez, PT Leisnham, R Muller, RS Azevedo, S Shimshony, SE Randolph, T Ikegami, T Yanase, UJ Buchholz, V Herder, Vanessa Herder, VH Leonard, Wolfgang Baumgärtner, X Shi, Y Ogawa, YK Liao   +73 more
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The Effect of Alternative Sheep–Beef Enterprise Mixes on Farm Productivity, Profitability and Predicted Enteric Methane Emissions in North Island Hill Country Farms

New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, Volume 69, Issue 2, April 2026.
Sheep or beef cattle (cattle) share of total farm feed consumed, measured in stock units (SU) on New Zealand farms, is often adjusted depending on the profitability of each enterprise. The impact of these adjustments on whole‐farm productivity, profitability and predicted methane (CH4) output has not been recently explored. A system dynamics model of a
Joseph A. Adjabui, Patrick C. H. Morel, Stephen T. Morris, Thiagarajah Ramilan, Peter R. Tozer, Paul R. Kenyon   +5 more
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Consumer Appreciation of Carcass Quality of Organic vs Conventional Suckling Lamb Production [PDF]

, 2008
Carcass characteristics of sucking lambs (n= 40) of two breeds reared under conventional and organic conditions were analysed including objective and subjective parameters for fatness and conformation, meat and fat colour.
Lurueña-Martínez, M.A., Palacios, C., Revilla, I., Severiano-Pérez, P., Vivar-Quintana, A.M.   +4 more
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Performance, Body Development, and Diarrhoea Incidence in Sannen Goat Kids Fed Milk Replacer Supplemented With Bakery Yeast

Veterinary Medicine and Science, Volume 12, Issue 2, March 2026.
Liquid feeding of sucking Saanen goat kids in rural areas and developing countries Goat milk, milk replacer, and milk replacer plus bakery yeast More diarrhoea and lower gain with feeding milk replacer and yeast. ABSTRACT Background Feeding milk replacer with appropriate probiotics is one possibility to improve the artificial rearing of goat kids ...
Sayyed Mahmoud Nasrollahi, Alireza Ashkvari, Ali Jamali‐Fallah   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source