BLOAT, a digestive disorder of ruminants, is the distention of the stomach with gas. The swelling is limited mainly to the first two compartments of the stomach—the rumen (or paunch) and reticulum (or honeycomb). The occurrence of bloat has increased remarkably since 1930, perhaps a reflection of changes in management and feeding practices, a great increase in acreage of legumes, and other fact...

Schmallenberg virus (SBV) is a recently discovered Bunyavirus associated mainly with abortions, stillbirths and malformations of the skeletal and central nervous system (CNS) in newborn ruminants. In this study, a detailed immunophenotyping of the inflammatory cells of the CNS of affected animals was carried out in order to increase our understanding of SBV pathogenesis. A total of 82 SBV-polym...

Bovine brucellosis is a major zoonosis, mainly caused by Brucella abortus, more rarely by Brucella melitensis. France has been bovine brucellosis officially-free since 2005 with no cases reported in domestic/wild ruminants since 2003. In 2012, bovine and autochthonous human cases due to B. melitensis biovar 3 (Bmel3) occurred in the French Alps. Epidemiological investigations implemented in wil...

Linguatula serrata is a zoonotic parasite causing visceral and nasopharyngeal linguatulosis in humans. Dog and other canines are the main definitive hosts while most herbivores, including ruminants serve as intermediate hosts for linguatulosis. Human rarely become infected as both final and intermediate hosts. This survey aimed to assess the L. serrata infection rate of dogs and domestic rumina...

Harvesting of wild ruminants occurs to an appreciable extent in several countries, but the potential world production of meat from these animals is greatly in excess of the current yield. Any increase in the utilization of this important source of protein may be obtained by either an increase in the cropping of present animal systems or through the introduction of changes such as those imposed ...

I NSULIN is essential for the normal metabolism of carbohydrates, lipids and proteins in the monogastric animal (Tepperman, 1968) ; however, its role in the normal metabolism of ruminants is poorly understood. Since alloxan-induced diabetes produced a similar response in ruminant and nonruminant animals (Reid, Hinks and Mills, 1963; Jarret, 1946) and depancreatized sheep behaved similarly to al...

Effects of Treatment by Beam Electron and Alkaline Hydrogen Peroxide on the Nutritional Value Date Kernel Powder in Ruminants

The forage maturation hypothesis (FMH) states that energy intake for ungulates is maximised when biomass at intermediate levels. Nevertheless, metabolic allometry and different digestive systems suggest resource selection should vary across ungulate species. By combining GPS relocations with remotely sensed data on characteristics surface water, we quantified the effect of body size system in d...

the naturally occurring antioxidants: vitamin e, β-carotene and vitamin c are known to ameliorate theoxidative stress generated during various physiological and pathological conditions. the oxidative stress mayoccur at different sites, different times, and by different mechanisms in the animal system. lower levels ofthe anti-oxidant vitamins are associated with poor fertility and production lev...