By now, very little is known about events occurring during early infection and innate immunity to infection with E. granulosus following ingestion of the infective egg stage and establishment of the primary cyst. In this study, ten lambs of 4 6 months old of mixed sexes were divided into 2 groups of 5 lambs (one test and one control group). Each lamb in test group received 2000 intraperitoneall...

Lambs were given a diet of oaten chaff-sucrose-fishmeal (48:48:4, w/w) and either 60 (diet A) or 120 (diet B) g urea/kg sucrose in the diet. All animals were defaunated and half were refaunated. Each group of lambs (faunated and defaunated) was then divided into two groups and given diet A or diet B. Feed intake, wool growth and live-weight change were monitored over a 182 d period. The level o...

This paper presents data on the incidence and cause of lamb deaths from 3, 4, 6 and 7 year old ewe groups on one property in south west Victoria. Postmortem examinations were performed on 390 lambs. The perinatal mortality rate was highest among the lambs of young and aged ewes, being associated with a higher incidence of lambs dying from dystocia and starvation respectively. This variation in ...

Plant species present a complex array of biochemicals to herbivores that in conjunction with a plant’s physical structure influence intake. Our objective was to determine the role of postingesŽ . tive feedback from macronutrients on the ingestion of a low-quality forage by sheep OÕis aries . We compared the ingestive behaviour of two groups of lambs conditioned with intraruminal Ž . Ž . infusio...

forty-eight mehraban male lambs each of 6 months of age and 32.1 ± 3.9 kg body weight (bw) were utilized to study the effects of administration of echum amoenum extract (eae) on plasma metabolites and methane gas. following 2 weeks of adaptation and being fed a total mixed ration (tmr) of 60 to 40-ratio concentrate to forage, the lambs were divided by their initial bw into 4 groups of 12 lambs ...

The objective of the experiment was to determine the optimal dose of copper oxide wire particles (COWPs) to reduce infection of Haemonchus contortus in male lambs. Five to six-month-old hair breed lambs were housed on concrete and fed 450 (L; n = 25) or 675 g (H; n = 25) corn/soybean meal supplement and bermudagrass hay. In July, lambs were inoculated with 10,000 L(3) larvae (97% H. contortus; ...

This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of feeding treated wheat straw with urea and whey on fattening lambs performance. About 4.5 kg urea and 1.5 kg salt were dissolved in 40 L water and mixed with 30 L of whey. The solution was spread over 100 kg chopped wheat straw. Thirty two male lambs were randomly divided into four feeding groups to compare performance with diets based on barley...

1. Results of 138 nitrogen balance studies from experiments with forty male Limousin and nineteen male Ile de France preruminant lambs were used to estimate total N requirements and to assess the effects of dietary tricaproin inclusion, protein concentration, lysine and methionine supplementation and the age of lambs on protein retention. In addition, energy balances were obtained in twenty-fou...

Ingestion of small amounts of condensed tannin (CT) by ruminants can produce valuable outcomes such as improved nitrogen use and reduced bloating, methane output, and gastrointestinal parasitism. However, many grasses and forbs contain little if any CT. The specific types of CT vary in plants and can have somewhat different effects on ruminants. Individual ruminants can respond differently to C...