Hill country sheep production
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Multi-trait selection indexes for sustainable UK hill sheep production
Three selection indexes for the UK hill sheep sector are derived to suit the extremes of hill production systems. These are: (i) intensive, where all surplus lambs not required for breeding are finished for slaughter, (ii) extensive, where all surplus ‘store’ lambs are sold to other farmers for finishing, and (iii) semi-intensive, which is intermediate between the two extremes, i.e. farms finis...
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The National Scrapie Plan (NSP) was launched in Great Britain in 2001, with the aim of eventually eradicating scrapie, a small ruminant transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, from the national sheep flock. Specifically, a selective breeding programme, the Ram Genotyping Scheme, was devised enabling pedigree ram breeders to reduce the number of scrapie-susceptible genotypes from their flocks. ...
متن کاملAn overview of current and potential hill country livestock systems
This paper reviews current production trends for sheep and beef cattle production in New Zealand and gives some insight into the opportunities for improvement. The New Zealand climate favours pasture growth and this is the key to sheep and beef cattle production with over 95% of the diet being grazed pasture or crop. Exports are the focus of the industry with 92% of sheep meat and 82% of beef e...
متن کاملMinerals in the nutrition of hill cattle and sheep.
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متن کاملRelationships between energy intake and productivity in hill sheep.
Nutrition of hill cattle and sheep '97 the hill sheep industry the transfer of hill land to other uses or the restriction of sheep farming is frequently advocated. Rarely does this take into account the opportunities for improvement which exist at the biological level or whether modifications to or changes in systems could make sheep production economically viable. Subsequent papers will presen...
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عنوان ژورنال: New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research
سال: 1976
ISSN: 0028-8233,1175-8775
DOI: 10.1080/00288233.1976.10421043