Little information is available on the enzyme activities of sheep tissues in vitro. Kleiber (1941, 1947) measured the oxygen consumption of liver slices of rats, rabbits and sheep, and attempted to correlate the QO, of this tissue with the metabolic rate of the living animal and to establish a direct relationship to body size. However, Krebs (1950), using more refined and standardized technique...

Six sheep were fed twice a day on a different ratio of sheep pellets and hay (20:80 (diet 1), 40:60 (diet 2) and 80:20 (diet 3)) in a replicated Latin square design to study the effect of the host diet on the bacterial concentration of ruminal liquor and in vitro gas production degradability parameters of cellulose, glucose and hay. Bacterial DM, bacterial absorbance and the volume of gas produ...

Prompted by current concerns about energy resources and greenhouse gas emissions, we sought to assess the impact of certain key factors on energy efficiency in sheep-for-meat production and to evaluate the main directions for improvement. We used a modelling approach to simulate the functioning and performances of sheep-for-meat production systems integrating an energy balance calculation modul...

Sheep is an important livestock in the world for meat, dairy and wool production. The third version of sheep reference genome has been recently assembled, but sheep DNA methylome has not been profiled yet. In this study, we report the comprehensive sheep methylome with 94.38% cytosine coverage at single base resolution by sequencing DNA samples from Longissimus dorsi of dizygotic Sunit sheep, w...

This review focuses on the platform of recent advances in reproductive biotechnologies in sheep and goat. Here, we discuss some aspects of veterinary and biomedical importance in artificial insemination using sexed semen, in vitro/in vivo fertilization, interspecies in vitro fertilization, multiple ovulation and embryo transfer (MOET), somatic cell nuclear transfer and transgenic animal product...

Aims: Analyze the economic efficiency of production and describe supply chain scheme for fattening sheep business in Sei Bingai District, Langkat Regency.
 Study Design: This type research is quantitative descriptive research.
 Place Duration Study: The was conducted from November 2022-January 2023 Methodology: Data collection techniques include several techniques, namely using questi...

Stud breeders, farmers and meat traders have considered carcass conformation or shape in sheep an important trait. This trait can be assessed on either carcasses or live animals for slaughter and breeding. Nevertheless, there is no single universally accepted de®nition of the term carcass conformation across the sheep industry. The use of the word carcass conformation in the sheep industry is f...

This study describes an outbreak of Toxoplasma gondii abortions in a sheep herd in January/February 2010. An aborted fetus was submitted to the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory for post mortem evaluation. Tissue samples were collected and processed by routine histological methods, stained by hematoxylin-eosin and by immunohistochemistry using anti-T. gondii and Neospora caninum specific antibod...

the digestibility and fermentation parameters of the diets containing leaf, pod and seed of the subabul tree in sheep was determined by using two steps digestion and gas production (gp) methods. the experimental diets consisted of 0.0 (control), 25, 50, 75 and 100 percent of the leaf, pod and seed of the subabul tree that were replaced with alfalfa in diets of sheep. diets containing 50 percent...

abstract. rangelands are mainly used for grazing the livestock in iran, it is essential to specify grazing suitability of rangelands in each region of country, so that it may improve the management policies and approaches for planning and designing current and future plans. the aim of this research was to determine the rangeland suitability for sheep grazing in the watershed of sadegh abad, ker...