The study was established in local farm sheep Muwafaqia / Wasit - Iraq, from 1/10/2018 until 15/1/2019, to evaluate the effect of adding selenium with or without Vitamin E on some physiological characteristics Awassi male lambs. Sixteen lambs were selected after weaning an average weight (24.30) kg and aged (3-4) months. All fed 2% body a concentrated diet randomly divided into (4) groups. Cont...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the productive performance, apparent digestibility, and carcass longissimus dorsi muscle characteristics lambs fed diets supplemented with four levels Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Thirty-two male Hampshire (25.82±1.95 kg body weight) were distributed in treatments: basal diet (20:80, forage:concentrate), inclusion 0, 3, 5, 10 g animal−1 d−1Saccharomyces ...

Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in adult sheep usually causes milder clinical signs than in cattle or pigs, and is often subtle enough to go undiagnosed. In contrast, FMD in lambs has been reported to cause high mortality during field outbreaks. In order to investigate the pathogenesis of FMD in lambs, two groups, aged 10-14 days, were infected with foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) type O UKG. ...

Many secondary compounds are typically present in unpalatable shrubs on arid and semi-arid rangelands. However, the relationship between intake by livestock and concentration of individual chemicals has been examined for very few of these compounds. Four experiments were conducted to examine effects of individual volatile compounds on intake of alfalfa pellets by lambs. Forty-five lambs (9 lamb...

This study was designed to identify genetically resistant animals to gastrointestinal nematode (GIN) infections using microsatellite polymorphisms of Ovar-DRB1 gene in Iranian Ghezel sheep breed lambs. In the present study 120 male Ghezel lambs were at 4 to 6 months of age randomly selected from six different sheep flocks in East Azerbaijan province (n=20 per flock). These lambs were naturally ...

The aims of this work were to quantify the requirements of Zn for wool growth in growing male Merino lambs, and to describe the histological lesions of Zn deficiency in skin and wool follicles. Four groups of male Merino lambs (n 4) weighing 22 kg were fed ad lib. for 96 d on diets that contained 4 (basal diet), 10, 17 or 27 mg Zn/kg. Sheep in a fifth group were fed on the diet containing 27 mg...

To study the impact of body condition score (BCS) ewes on weight (BW) and gain (BWG) lambs effect weaning age BW BWG lambs, thirty Awassi (2–3 years old) with their borne male were used in study. Ewes condition-scored assigned to three groups, 1st, 2nd 3rd groups BCS 2.5, 3 3.5 respectively. Lambs weaned neither 60 or 90 days (5 for each), lasted days. The analyzed data showed significant (P≤0....

OBJECTIVES We hypothesized that pulmonary arteriovenous shunting (PAVS) is normally present in fetal lungs and that cavopulmonary anastomosis-induced PAVS may represent a return to an earlier morphologic stage of development. BACKGROUND The surgical superior cavopulmonary anastomosis is performed as part of the staged Fontan pathway to treat univentricular forms of congenital heart disease; P...

∗ E-mail: [email protected] ABSTRACT This study was applied on a total number of 40 native breed lambs from Dakahlia governorate, their ages being ranged from 5 to 26 days, in order to declare the effects of nutritional muscular dystrophy as an oxidative stress in lambs and the effect of vitamin C administration in enhancing the treatment of Nutritional Muscular Dystrophy (NMD), decreasing...

A dilatable form of bilateral branch pulmonary artery stenosis was created in 27 newborn lambs. Nine lambs were long-term survivors and were dilated with modified Grüntzig balloon dilation catheters. They were allowed to recover for 6-9 weeks, during which time there was no significant change in the mean systolic gradients across the narrowed sites. Thirteen arteries underwent dilation. Dilatio...