Introduction Despite growing interest in gender analysis value chains, comparatively few studies have analyzed relations small ruminant chains using sex-disaggregated quantitative data livestock-based systems. Methods Drawing on baseline from the Small Ruminant Value Chain Development Program (SRVD) Ethiopia, this study aims to address two research questions: what is status along chain stages a...

Bu çalışma, Hakkâri ilindeki küçükbaş hayvancılık işletmelerinin (96 işletme) mevcut durumunun ortaya konulması amacıyla yapılmıştır. İşletmeler için hazırlanan anket verileri 129 sorudan oluşturulmuştur. Anket SPSS istatistik yazılım programı ile değerlendirilmiştir. ili hayvan %59.4’ünün Akkaraman koyunu ve Kıl keçisi yetiştiriciliğini birlikte yaptığı tespit edilmiştir (p˂0.01). İşletmelerin...

Mountain livestock systems, and particularly those based on breeding small ruminants, traditionally constituted a mainstay element of the local economy in Southeastern Spain's mountainous areas. With the rural exodus, which began in the early sixties, these systems were in critical danger of disappearing, due to, among other causes, the scarcity of shepherds and goatherds, the breakdown of an e...

These proceedings summarize the results of research on dwarf sheep and goat production in humid West Africa. Among the topics discussed are disease profiles of village sheep and goats; feed intake, growth and reproduction rates of West African Dwarf goats; integration of the small ruminant enterprise into the wider farming system of the zone; and the economics of the improved production systems...

Two distinct subgroups of genotype A2 small ruminant lentiviruses (SRLVs) have been identified in the United States that infect sheep with specific host transmembrane protein 154 (TMEM154) diplotypes. Here, we report the first two complete genome sequences of SRLV strains infecting U.S. sheep belonging to genotype A2, subgroups 1 and 2.

To determine why serum from small ruminants infected with ruminant pestiviruses reacted positively to classical swine fever virus (CSFV)-specific diagnostic tests, we analyzed 2 pestiviruses from Turkey. They differed genetically and antigenically from known Pestivirus species and were closely related to CSFV. Cross-reactions would interfere with classical swine fever diagnosis in pigs.