To reach the desirable ecosystem management, determining the animal dietselection, which is one of the components of rangeland ecosystem, is important. Therefore, inorder to determine the grazing behavior and diet selection of sheep and goat, the uplandrangeland of northern part of Alborz was selected. In this study, the first weeks of July andAugust of 2009 were chosen for the grazing period o...

A grazing trial in Central Otago compared the effectiveness of feral goats, Angora goats and Merino sheep for sweet brier control. The three ammal types were set stocked in replicate 0.5 ha paddocks at 10 Angoras, 14 ferals and 12 Merinos per ha. Goats were also rotationally grazed on a 50 ha block at approximately 10 goats per ha. Goat grazing reduced living brie, in the trial paddocks to negl...

The Loess Plateau of China is one of the most fragile ecosystems worldwide; thus, human production activities need to be conducted very cautiously. In this study, MiSeq high-throughput sequencing was applied to assess the relationship between bacterial and fungal community structures and changes in vegetation and soil physical and chemical properties induced by grazing, in four grasslands with ...

Abstract Introduction Diet selection of grazing livestock is one the critical factors affecting diversity and composition plant communities in grasslands, with consequent impacts for ecosystem functioning. Co‐grazing multiple species could create additive or complementary effects on due to diet overlap differentiation among species. However, there only limited knowledge about co‐occurring wheth...

Continuous exposure to an aversive mixture was investigated as a means of maintaining aversion to vermeerbos in sheep subjected to the social influence of non-averted sheep. The use of an aversive mixture was based on a hypothesis that continuous exposure to an acceptable aversive mixture (containing both the aversive substance and the identification factors of vermeerbos mixed with maize meal)...

this study was conducted to evaluate seasonal concentrations of macro-minerals in serum or plasma of sheep under grazing conditions to establish mineral deficiencies and excesses over a two-seasonal grazing period (fall-winter and spring-summer corresponding to the rainy and dry seasons) according to variations of year, region and animal classes in sabalan, iran. in each flock, ten sheep (38-50...

The few estimates in the literature of the quantity of food eaten by the grazing sheep have involved calculations based on some component of the faeces. ’ The “apparent digestibility” of this component was first calculated with sheep fed on known amounts of cut pasture. Faeces were then collected from grazing sheep and the amount of the particular component in the faeces was used to predict the...

The molecular diversity of rumen methanogens in sheep in Australia was investigated by using individual 16S rRNA gene libraries prepared from the rumen contents obtained from six merino sheep grazing pasture (326 clones), six sheep fed an oaten hay-based diet (275 clones), and five sheep fed a lucerne hay-based diet (132 clones). A total of 733 clones were examined, and the analysis revealed 65...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate possible cross-infection of Dichelobacter nodosus in Norwegian farms practising co-grazing of sheep and cattle. METHODS Thirteen farms practising co-grazing of sheep and cattle were included in this descriptive study: five farms with a history of severe ovine footrot (Group I) and eight farms with free-stall housing of cattle and signs of mi...