The accession of the eight CEE member states to the EU will integrate about 450 million consumers with rather similar consumption patterns for animal products. Both the old and the new EU members produce surpluses, but in ruminant meat production the EU will become a net importer. As the EU will be forced to reduce import barriers from the World market, price levels will decline, but probably b...

The question posed by the title of the paper is in essence a simple one: is it possible, from chemical and physical analysis of the diet, to predict the rate of growth of the ruminant animal? The beguiling simplicity of the question is soon dissipated in view of the ruminant mode of digestion and the transformation of the ingested nutrients to alternate forms for absorption and the subsequent s...

this cross-sectional study was conducted to estimate seroprevalence and to identify flock-level factors associated with seropositivity to brucellosis in small ruminants in kerman province, southeastern iran. in october-november 2011, serum samples were randomly collected from 1767 sheep and 1233 goats, older than 18 months, from 300 flocks. the sera were initially screened for the presence of a...