Reflections on sheep rearing

Welfare implications of artificial rearing and early weaning in sheep

Soon after parturition a lasting and mutual ewe–lamb bond is established. However, in an increasing number of intensive sheep farms, lambs are separated from the dam at an early age. When artificial rearing is applied lambs are often kept with mothers for 2 days to allow the ingestion of maternal colostrum and then abruptly removed from their dams. Thus, lambs experience a marked emotional stre...

Extensive rearing hinders Maedi-Visna Virus (MVV) infection in sheep.

Maedi-Visna Virus (MVV) seroprevalence and its relationship with housing and mode of rearing of replacement ewe-lambs was investigated in 38 non-randomly selected sheep-flocks in Spain. They included extensive lamb-producing Manchega cross-bred flocks raised almost permanently at pasture, semi-intensive Latxa dairy flocks housed 2-8 months/year and intensively raised Assaf dairy flocks housed m...

Reflections on Reflections

The graduate student workshop ''Buddhist Art: Objects and Contexts'' was an unusual event. Like Reflections of the Buddha, the exhibition it addressed, it was in constant dialogue with its physical setting, the singular Tadao Ando ¯ building home to the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, as the four sessions moved through the four galleries in changing light. The event was also distinguished by ...

On Rearing Infants

severe nervous diseases as epilepsy, insanity, &c. The enervating effects of the climate of India on the European constitution, and the artificial life led by many mothers in this country, too often produces physical incapacity for nursing or induces a condition of mind which ignores the duty. Dr. J. King Chambers gives the warning in his "Manual on iJietin health and disease," that " even devi...

An Investigation on Tadao Ando’s Phenomenological Reflections