An experiment was carried out to compare the effect of feeding posidonia australis as a non-conventional feedstuff with cereal straw for sheep maintenance; and to compare seagrass/chicken litter with lucerne hay and pasture for sheep production on a scale such as would be applicable to lot-feeding of sheep in the area of suthern Australia in case of short term feed scarcity. To approach this ta...

Mixtures of legume and grass are used worldwide to gain advantages in forage production ecological maintenance. However, competition for nutrients by legumes mixtures has not been fully explored. The aim was determine how the proportion affected nutrient mixtures. Treatments included two species combinations five sowing ratios. Competitive ratios (CR) lucerne nitrogen (N) phosphorus (P) over gr...

Two adult Texel sheep fitted with permanent rumen fistulae were defaunated for 12 weeks in a preliminary experiment. They were then reinoculated with Isotricha sp for 11 weeks, and finally with a mixed fauna (Entodinium, Epidinium, Eudiplodinium and Isotricha) for 10 weeks. They were fed a diet composed of dehydrated lucerne (700 g/d), pelleted barley grain (300 g/d), grass hay (100 g/d) and wh...

Papers in this special issue Governing “European values” inside data flows: interdisciplinary perspectives Kristina Irion, University of Amsterdam Mira Burri, Lucerne Ans Kolk,

1. The rate of transfer of plasma urea-nitrogen to rumen ammonia was measured by infusion of 15NH4Cl and [15N]urea into sheep given brome grass (Bromus inermis) or lucerne (Medicago sativa) pellets. Urea was infused into the rumen or abomasum of two sheep given brome grass in order to increase the concentration of rumen ammonia. 2. From 6.2 to 9.8 g/d of plasma urea-N were transferred to the ru...

This paper discusses the potential of unconferencing, a relatively new alternative to traditional conferences, as method for facilitating organisational learning and change. The paper describes the application of unconferencing at a large university (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich) which aimed at developing project proposals for CO2 reduction. The processes and outcomes of th...

background: this study aimed to assess the relationship between meal frequency with mental distress and violent behavior among a nationally representative sample of iranian children and adolescents. materials and methods: the participants of this national study were 14,880 iranian students with 6 to 18 years of age. they were selected from urban and rural regions of iran by multi-stage cluster ...