Background: Epidemiological studies have used farmer estimates of the prevalence of lameness in their flocks. This assumes that farmers can identify lame sheep. Eight movie clips of sheep with locomotion from sound to moderately lame were used to investigate the ability of farmers and sheep specialists to recognise lame sheep. Each participant was asked to complete a form and indicate, for each...

Plants have been recognized since ancient times as a distinct lineage of organisms, but the precise boundaries of the group have only recently come into sharp focus. Land plants, or embryophytes, are immediately familiar as the organisms that constitute the terrestrial vegetation, dominate agriculture, and play a wide range of cultural and economic roles in human society. It is more difficult t...

Contagious ovine digital dermatitis (CODD) is a severe and common infectious foot disease of sheep significant animal welfare issue for the industry in UK some European countries. The etiology pathogenesis are incompletely understood. In this longitudinal, experimental study, CODD was induced 18 sheep, first time, clinical lesion development associated microbiological changes affected feet desc...