Border disease, which is a congenital pestivirus disease and also known as "hairy Shaker or fuzzy lambs", is one of the causes of lambs and kids mortality and losses in animal production. Due to the lack of new comprehensive information on the rate of infection with pestiviruses in sheep and goat populations in Khorasan-Razavi province (in Iran), the present study was conducted to determine the...

ABST RACT In this study we aimed to investigate the presence of antibodies to Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis by ELISA in blood samples obtained from animals of at least 2 years of age selected by random sampling method in cattle, sheep and goat herds in Burdur province in Southwestern Turkey and to determine the apparent and true individual-animal, within-herd and between-herd sero...

—A great deal of parapsychological research has investigated the effect upon extra-sensory perception (ESP), of the so-called 'sheep-goat variable' (SGV), that is, belief in the existence of ESP, either in the abstract or with respect to one's own psychic ability. However, very little purely psychological research has examined the question of possible personality differences between 'sheep' (th...

background: the seroprevalence of toxoplasma gondii infection in buffaloes, sheep and goats in yunnan province, southwestern china was conducted between may 2012 and december 2013. methods: a total of 973 (427 buffaloes, 154 sheep and 392 goats) serum samples were collected from seven administrative regions of yunnan province, and exam­ined for t. gondii antibodies by indirect hemagglutination ...

background :  q fever is a zoonotic disease caused by inhalation of the bacterium coxiella burnetii . ruminant livestock are common reservoirs for c. burnetii , and bacteria present in aerosols derived from the waste of infected animals can infect humans . c. burnetii is thought to infect humans primarily via airborne transmission. methods : 64 environmental swab samples were collected from 24 ...

Sheeppox virus (SPPV) and goatpox virus (GTPV) are the causative agents of sheep pox and goat pox, and with lumpy skin disease virus make up the genus Capripoxvirus in the family Poxviridae. Sheep pox and goat pox are endemic in Africa north of the Equator, the Middle East and Asia, while some parts of Europe have experienced outbreaks recently. Countries that reported outbreaks of the disease ...

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...

infection by the protozoan parasite toxoplasma gondii, is widespread in humans and many other species of warm-blooded animals. it can cause significant morbidity and mortality in the developing fetus and in immunocompromised individuals, including humans with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome - aids or submitted to cancer chemotherapy. among livestock, sheep and goat are more widely infected w...

b a ckground: west nile virus (wnv) and rift valley fever virus (rvfv) are mosquito-borne viral diseases. the objective of this study was to investigate the rvfv and wnv infections as serologically in different mammalian species (cattle, horse, goat, sheep and water buffalo) in the northern turkey. m e t hods: blood samples randomly collected from 70 each cattle, horse, sheep, goat and water bu...

background: some species of grass cause poisoning and hepatogenous photosensitization in animals. objectives: feeding trials were conducted in sheep and goats to evaluate the hepatotoxic effects of setaria italica (s. italica). methods: twelve indigenous male sheep and goats were used in this study. the animals were kept outdoors against prevailing climatic conditions. they were fed with s. ita...