Sheep and goat rearing is a traditional occupation of small, marginal farmers and landless labourers in semiarid, arid, hilly and mountain regions of the country, inhospitable to conventional crop cultivation. Small ruminants produce food and fibre at relatively low cost from feed materials from ...
Soay, Welsh Mountain, Southdown, Finnish Landrace, Jacob, Wiltshire Horn and Oxford Down sheep and feral goats were slaughtered when at 0.40, 0.52, 0.64 or 0.76 of mature body weight. The effects of stage of maturity, breed and sex were examined in a number of carcass traits. As a ...
Breeding work with sheep includes selection, culling, and crossbreeding and is directed toward obtaining and rearing animals with desirable qualities. The principal feeds are grasses from natural and cultivated pastures, hay (mainly small-stalked), spring straw, silage, and concentrates. Sheep are pas...
Additionally, we seek to uncover the response mechanisms of gut microbiota composition to different rearing conditions. Through genomic library data, we identified strains with the potential to encode enzymes capable of degrading complex mucin glycan chains. We collected 210 sheep and 110 goat fecal ...
After the horses came Muriel, the white goat, and Benjamin the donkey. Benjamin was the oldest animal on the farm, and the worst tempered. He seldom talked, and when he did it was usually to make some cynical remark -- for instance he would say that God had given him a tail to ...
Goatbreeds are numerous and are usually classified according to use as dairy-, meat-, fiber-, or skin-type breeds. The major dairy breeds are the Alpine, Nubian, Toggenburg, La Mancha, and Saanen, all of which have origins on the European continent. The Nubian breed was developed from...
Rearing method(s) Infective L3 of G. pulchrum can be dissected from naturally infected dung beetles. Rabbits, Wistar rats, ddY mice, Suffolk sheep, and a domestic cat have been inoculated PO with 20–140 L3.25 Rabbits had the highest worm recovery rates (40%–72% at 7, 14, and 19 ...
Sheep rearing is an important source of income and occupation to the weaker strata of Indian society, because it possesses a special ability of thriving on natural grasses and except during certain physiological stages of life, do not need any supplemental feed. Very little attention has been pai...
On the other hand the correlation coefficients were generally small (ultimate pH — positive correlation; cooking loss, and shear force — negative correlations). Show abstract Theriogenology of Sheep and Goats 2012, Sheep and Goat Medicine Causes and Contributing Factors to “Dark Cutting” Meat: ...
If you are thinking of giving up commuting for the farming life, let me read you some advice from an official Australian Guide to Sheep Rearing. The Advantages 1. Herding Instinct. They tend to stay together. 2. Reproduction. They are quick growing and multiply easily. ...