Ana Helena Dias Francesconi

TL;DR: This review evaluating the status of the dairy sheep and goat sectors in the world, with special focus on the commercially and technically developed industries in France, Greece, Italy, and Spain (FGIS) observed that most Greek and French dairy sheep farms were unprofitable, with the exception of the intensive Chios farms of Greece.

TL;DR: Among feeding strategies, grazing and the use of supplements rich in oils seem to be the best and the cheapest strategies to improve the nutritional value of the fatty acid profile in sheep cheese.

TL;DR: The expected increase in world population and per capita income, with an increase in the amount and amount of ruminant production has been an essential part of human activities worldwide since ancient times as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: There is a need for biological and theoretical frameworks in whichFeeding experiments indoors and outdoors remain fundamental for a better modeling and understanding of the interactions between feeds and small ruminants, and appropriate empirical or mechanistic equations to predict DMI could be developed.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of grape seed supplementation, alone or combined with linseed, on ruminal BH processes in dairy sheep were evaluated, and it was shown that grape seed was able to increase the accumulation of RA when supplemented alone, and of VA when combined with extruded linseed; however, the rumen accumulation of SA in both groups supplemented with grape seed evidenced that this byproduct was not effective in decreasing the BH of dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA).