The widespread use of antimicrobials in animal husbandry has led to an increase in concentrations of antibiotics in animal faeces. Furthermore, the spreading of this waste as fertilizer on agricultural land indirectly introduces antimicrobial residues into the environment. This study examined samples of pig slurry and poultry manure for three tetracyclines—oxytetracycline (OTC), chlortetracycli...

Bovine enteric viruses can be used as indicators for animal fecal contamination; however, no quantitative real time PCR (qPCR) assay has been reported for detecting bovine adenoviruses (BAdV). In this study, we developed a duplex FRET assay targeting BAdV serotypes1, 2 and a taqman assay targeting BAdV serotypes 4 to 8. The detection limit of the duplex FRET assay is 25 and 10 genomic equivalen...

BACKGROUND Following increased rates of human campylobacteriosis in the late 1990's, and their apparent association with increased consumption of fresh chicken meat, a longitudinal study was conducted in Iceland to identify the means to decrease the frequency of broiler flock colonization with Campylobacter. Our objective in this study was to identify risk factors for flock colonization acting ...

Water quality in the United States is threatened by contamination with nutrients, primarily nitrogen and phosphorus. Animal manure can be a valuable resource for farmers, providing nutrients, improving soil structure, and increasing vegetative cover to decrease erosion potential. At the same time, application of manure nutrients in excess of crop requirements can result in environmental contami...

Dissemination and knowledge transfer remain a challenge in many fi elds of research. This is especially the case for the application of livestock waste management in developing countries where there an overwhelming volume of material is already available to the farm advisor and the real need is often the transfer of such knowledge to the local level. The object of this project is to package up ...

Field experiment was conducted to investigate the combine use of animal manure and inorganic fertilizer on growth and yield performance of vegetable cowpea. The experiment was laid out in a Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with seven treatments. Poultry manure, cattle manure and goat manure were evaluated with recommended level of inorganic fertilizer for vegetable cowpea. The highest cr...

This article presents suggestions toward safer animal handling utilizing the results of a qualitative study of women dairy farmers in Finland. A major proportion of injuries (43%) occur in livestock-related work in Finnish agriculture. An even greater proportion of women's farm injuries (77%) is related to animals. We investigated the working conditions often women dairy farmers. Data were coll...

to find out the effects of urea and animal manure as pellet and some microelements on total dry matter and physiological indices of medicinal pumpkin a split plot experimental design based on a randomized complete block with three replicates was conducted at university of tehran, college of abouraihan. the animal manure and urea as pellet with four levels (150 kg urea, 50 kg urea+3.5 tone anima...

An on-farm composting network operates in the Basque Country (northern Spain), in which solid manure produced in livestock farms (mostly dairy and beef cattle) is composted through windrow turning. This network aims to produce a valuable resource (compost) for the farmers whereas the volume of the solid manure was reduced at farm level The objective of the study was to assess the gaseous losses...