An anthelmintic programme employed by the Society for the Protection of Animals Abroad (SPANA) in Morocco was assessed by obtaining faecal egg counts and conditions scores for 158 working equines (donkeys, mules and horses) from souks (markets) routinely visited by the charity and compared with a souk not previously visited. Results showed the current programme to be ineffective in reducing the...

Abstract We consider the problem of estimating the distribution of carcass weights in a flock of animals from estimates made on a truncated sample. This arises when a farmer chooses the heaviest lambs for slaughter and then measurements are made by the meat processor. This enables a farmer to answer two questions: what proportion of the animals remaining exceed a nominated carcass weight, and/o...

Monitoring and detecting individual cows' liveweight (LW) change (LWC) are important for estimation of nutritional requirements health management, could be useful to measure short-term feed intake, water consumption, defecation, urination. Walk-over weighing (WOW) systems can facilitate measurements LW these purposes, providing automated recorded at different times the day. We conducted a field...

Context Overseer® is the primary software tool used to estimate farm-level nutrient cycle and management for regulatory purposes in New Zealand. The model compares feed demand among different livestock by using ‘revised stock units’ (RSUs, annual energy requirement of a mature ewe raise single lamb weaning; 6000MJ metabolisable energy). RSUs several common equine classes are not yet available, ...

The effect of feeding chopped and unchopped groundnut haulm (Harawa) on nutrient intake, metabolism utilization was determined in 24 (12 each male female) growing Yankasa lambs. Feeding harawa significantly (P 0.05) Increased feed the digestibility nutrients liveweight gains. It also had an ap­preciable nitrogen retention pro­duction total rumen nitrogen, ammonia-nitrogen volatile fatty acids. ...