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Food Producing Animals - Sheep & Goats
Schmallenberg virus sparks call for urgent EU risk assessment
03 February 2012

The confirmed presence of the Schmallenberg virus in five European countries has led to an urgent request from the European Commission for a risk assessment. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is to advise how the virus could manifest itself in animals over the coming months. Virus experts ...

Management key to sheep footrot reduction
10 November 2011

Researchers at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom have shown that proper management of footrot could cut lameness from one in ten to one in fifty sheep in the country. The research promises a sea change in tackling the endemic disease, which causes lameness in around nine million ewes ...

Rabid sheep in the US
24 October 2011

A rare case of rabies in sheep has been confirmed in the US state of Massachusetts. The sheep was one of a pen of three owned by three families at a cohousing complex in the town of Amherst. The animal had exhibited signs of lethargy, and, after a veterinary inspection, was euthanized as a rabies ...

Irish farms to improve sheep breeding
11 October 2011

The Irish farm institute Teagasc is working with sheep farmers to improve the condition, numbers and breeding potential of the country's flock. In pursuit of this goal Teagasc recently launched a new 'Sheep Research and Knowledge Transfer' program. The new strategy will support 30,000 Irish sheep ...

Nutreco launches feed health range
06 September 2011

Trouw Nutrition International, a manufacturer of animal feed premixes and specialty products, has launched a new branded range of animal health products. The company is a division of the Dutch multinational Nutreco . The Farm-O-San portfolio includes 20 existing Trouw products that aim to improve ...

 
Moredun updates on parasite and bleeding calf work 12 January 2010
Haemonchus contortus Work at Moredun shows that it is possible to successfully immunize sheep against Barber’s pole worm, (Haemonchus contortus), a blood-sucking roundworm which is probably the world’s most important parasite of sheep and goats. There are currently no commercial vaccines for any ...
Olive feed co-products could raise meat and milk quality
27 May 2009

A joint study by Spanish and Welsh researchers shows that feeding ruminants olive co-products in their diet can improve the quality of milk and meat for human consumption. A paper by E Molina-Alcaide of Unidad de Nutrición Animal in Granada, Spain, and DR Yáñez-Ruiz of the Institute of Rural ...

 
 
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