Sheep and goats are farmed throughout the world for meat, fibre, milk and leather. These small ruminants are very susceptible to external parasites, which has significant implications for their health and welfare as well as the quality and value of the end products for which the…
This book is comprised of 11 chapters covering the prevention and control of ectoparasites that contribute to disease and infection in sheep and goats, types of parasites, diseases caused by these parasites and control methods that are currently available. Moreover, the implicat…
The principles of nutrition and nutritional management of grazing sheep are discussed in terms of feeding for maintenance, during conception and pregnancy, during lactation, for sheepmeat production, and for sheep under rangeland conditions. The book elaborates on the nutritive …
Positive Aspects of Animal Welfare
Sheep, goat, and cervid medicine
The intention of this paper is to analyze and explore the different aspects of Matthew 25:31-46. This research briefly examines how modern Biblical scholars and theologians have approached and interpreted Matthew 25. Further, I will place Jesus’ announcement of the “coming of th…
Sheep and goat formed the foundation of pastoral activity across the Central Asian steppe through the Bronze Age. Theories of pastoral activity have assumed that flocks were uniform in association with ethnic groups that crossed the steppe with new ceramic forms and technologies…
The ruminants
by Ashdown, Raymond R., Done, Stanley H.
fromColor atlas of veterinary anatomy
The ruminants
by Ashdown, Raymond R., Done, Stanley H.
fromColor atlas of veterinary anatomy
Social behavior in farm animals
The book is about social behaviour in farm animals (cattle, pigs, domestic birds, sheep, horses and fish). Part I of the book deals with the concepts of social behaviour, Part II concentrates on species-specific animal behaviour, and part III tackles the contemporary topics in s…
Annotation An understanding of social behavior is increasingly necessary in farm animal husbandry as more animals are housed in groups rather than in individual stalls or pens. There may be economic or welfare reasons for such housing. This book is the first to specifically addr…