The success of animal husbandry is supported by good and environmental health management practices. This study examined the correlation between sheep farmer’s characteristics data collected direct interviews with 48 respondents in Batur Village, Banjarnegara. Indonesia. aspects (exercise, grooming, wool shearing, supplement feeding, water drinking) (sheepfold sanitation, waste processing, remov...

By means of contact dynamic simulations, we investigate the contact network topology and force chains in two-dimensional packings of elongated particles subjected to biaxial shearing. The morphology of large packings of elongated particles in quasistatic equilibrium is complex due to the combined effects of local nematic ordering of the particles and orientations of contacts between particles. ...

This paper presents a brief review of the factors affecting flystrike (cutaneous myiasis) as background to the on-going analysis of information on strike incidence, flock management, weather conditions and fly abundance in three discrete sheep grazing areas in eastern Australia (Flinders Island, Gunning and Inverell). These data were assembled in the late 1980s early 1990s as part of a program ...

Occupationally acquired inter-digital pilonidal sinuses are seldom seen and typically found on the hands of hair dressers. Sheep shearing has traditionally been believed to be a cause of inter-digital pilonidal sinuses; although in reality it is infrequently so with only two previously reported cases in 1951 and 1966. We present a rare case of a shearer who worked with a variety of sheep and pr...

INTRODUCTION Ovine dermatophilosis, commonly called ‘dermo’ or ‘lumpy wool’, is an acute or subacute, chronic exudative dermatitis of sheep of all age groups. It causes economic loss to producers through lowered production, lowered wool value, treatment costs, poor-quality skins, restriction of management options such as shearing and death in severe cases. It is caused by a bacterium, Dermatoph...

The paper deals with the design of cognitive artefacts. It is supported that both normative and descriptive design approaches fail to acknowledge the co-adaptation between users and artefacts; this leads to the so-called design paradox and obstructs the co-evolution of practice and artefacts. In the first section, the paper discusses the task-artefact cycle and presents examples showing that th...

Physics|Solid State) STRESS FLUCTUATIONS IN CONTINUOUSLY SHEARED GRANULAR MEDIA by Brian J. Miller Department of Physics Duke University

The objective of this study was to compare some husbandry procedures on the base of physiological stress parameters and evaluate the welfare status in sheep. Forty ewes were used as the study material. Measurements were taken during several routine husbandry procedures such as milking, shearing, weighing, loading and hoof care. Data regarding time spent for each application, as well as heart an...