Showing papers in "Small Ruminant Research in 2001"

TL;DR: The future evolution of sheep and goat edible products is difficult to foresee, but will quality be the criterion which will give the market direction in the developed countries and in the developing regions will this not be handicapped by the fragility and marginalisation of the existing livestock farming systems and untenable rises in costs.

TL;DR: It was concluded that sunflower seed oil reduced rumen fauna and the C16:0 proportion of fat, while increasing C18:2 and CLA content in the muscle and fat tissues.

TL;DR: The study indicates that supplementing lambs infected with E. coli O157:H7 by sheep experimentally infected with the pathogen prior to administration with the microbials can reduce the number of sheep shed and improve the performance of the Lactobacillus acidophilus and Streptococcus faecium in reducing fecal shedding.

TL;DR: The changes in blood constituents during pregnancy and lactation periods were examined, mainly due to a sharp decrease in globulin, while albumin remained higher than in dry ewes with a slow decline, which resulted in higher values of A/G ratio during lactation.

TL;DR: A countrywide survey of small ruminant owners was conducted in The Gambia to obtain information about the ownership pattern, reasons for keeping and especially about breeding and management practices including housing and feeding, and Implications for the establishment and structure of a multiplication tier within a three tier breeding scheme, nucleus-->multipliers-->farmers are discussed.

TL;DR: Se supplementation of pregnant ewes affected measures of thyroxine metabolism and immunity, and Se from SeY was more readily transferred to the fetus and colostrum.

TL;DR: In this paper, the oxidative stability of different chevon (goat meat) cuts (leg, shoulder/arm, and loin/rib) when displayed (2°C) as case-ready packages was studied.

TL;DR: It is concluded that the traits of the Dorper flock can be improved by selection with no serious antagonisms among traits studied.

TL;DR: Somatic cell count was a better predictor of bacteriological status than either the CMT score or impedance in both goats and sheep, however, knowledge of the C MT score in both sheep and goats and the impedance in goats increases the likelihood of predicting the presence of a bacterial pathogen compared to no testing at all.

TL;DR: The changed deposition and distribution of kid body fat suggest that sunflower oil (rich in linoleic acid) could have a favourable effect on the quality of goat meat.

TL;DR: The results indicate that the morphological and ultrastructural organization of caprine preantral follicles resembles that of other mammals, however, some particularities were observed, and that may indicate species specific differences.

TL;DR: It was concluded that gastrointestinal helminths cause production losses, weight loss and mortalities in goats in Kenya.

TL;DR: It is indicated that goats are more resistant to Cu toxicity than sheep, and feeding goats 50mgCu per day or more, resulted in an increased plasma GGT as compared to BD goats.

TL;DR: There should be, on the basis of energy demand and grazing behaviour of reindeer as well as the nutritive value of lichen, an estimated 1000kg lichen DMha(-1) available in a good condition woodland lichen pasture during winter.

TL;DR: The higher SCC in the CNS infected halves contrasted with the more moderate SCC found in dairy cows similarly infected, suggesting that the sheep udder has a lower resistance and an augmented immunological response against this group of bacteria.

TL;DR: Regression analyses showed that BWG can be optimized at 136g CP/kg DM and protein retention at 180g CP orkg DM, whereas, dietary nitrogen was utilized most efficiently at 120g CP /kg DM.

TL;DR: The highest increase in testicular parameters occurred between 7 and 10 months of age at 34.6kg live body weight and were correlated with body weight more than with age.

TL;DR: The results demonstrated that the gGH gene could be exploited as a candidate gene for marker-assisted selection in goat breeds and was demonstrated to be positively associated with milk production.

TL;DR: Overall, in experimental conditions, the use of citrus pulp silage seemed to be economically convenient for producing animals with substantially unmodified carcass and meat quality characteristics.

TL;DR: It is concluded that auricular implants or intravaginal devices may be reused, at last one more time, because they are efficient for inducing and synchronizing estrus in cyclic dairy goats.

TL;DR: In this article, the carryover of aflatoxin B 1 (AFB 1 ) in to milk as AFM 1 was found to increase with the passage of time, whereas, the same was seen to decline in the adsorbent fed groups T 2 and T 3.

TL;DR: Results suggest that the optimum CP concentration is 16% and that any increase above this level will not result in any improvement in production.

TL;DR: Removal of seminal plasma decreased motility and vigor rates in frozen samples, and the use of fluorescent probes allowed a better estimation of the percentage of functional cells, instead of only estimating the Percentage of motile cells or morphology defects.

TL;DR: It is inferred that mulberry leaves may be used as a protein supplement to ammoniated straw diets to fully substitute for RSM, but these two supplements should unlikely be supplemented together to avoid the negative associate effect.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that there is an opportunity for improvement of Bharat Merino lambs based on selection for growth rate and genetic and phenotypic correlations among growth traits were significant and in the desirable direction.

TL;DR: Results indicate that in addition to additive direct effect, additive maternal effect for birth weight was important, and direct heritability was substantially higher when maternal effects were ignored.

TL;DR: Genetic variation at 18 microsatellite loci was analysed in six indigenous Spanish sheep: Churra; Latxa; Manchega; Rasa-Aragonesa; Castellana and Merino, corroborating the high level of variation frequently displayed by micros satellite markers.

TL;DR: The lambing rate obtained after laparoscope aided intrauterine artificial insemination with frozen semen is encouraging but the impetus is now to develop the non-invasive transcervical insemination technique.

TL;DR: Rapid death was observed in sheep receiving single doses of the mixture of the two plants and effects were correlated with changes in the activities of serum lactic dehydrogenase (LDH) and aspartate transaminase (AST) and concentrations of cholesterol, bilirubin, total protein, albumin, globulin and urea and haematological parameters.