Background: Livestock mortality impacts farmer livelihoods and household nutrition.
Capturing trends in livestock mortality at localised or national levels is essential to planning …

Reproductive traits are economically important and therefore need to be considered during
designing sheep breeding and improvement programs, as it determines the efficiency of …

Productivity and profitability of sheep farming are highly influenced by lamb survival and
ewe reproductive performance. Thus, this study was conducted to evaluate the survival and …

This study retrospectively investigated the effect of breed and season on the lambing/kidding
dynamics, growth performance, neonatal viability, and weaning dynamics of sheep …

Lamb survival is a critical aspect in the sheep industry as it increases the chances of
economic gain in the flock. The objective of the current study was to assess the incidence of …

Lamb morbidity and mortality cause significant loss in a smallholder production system. A
longitudinal prospective survey was conducted on 408 randomly selected farmers located in …

Pre-weaning mortality (PM) of lambs is a worldwide economically trait of interest. It has a
negative impact on the profitability of sheep farms. However, little is known about the genetic …

The present study was carried out to estimate lamb survival (in days) from birth to weaning
under survival analysis using data records from 2057 Harnali lambs born to 134 sires and …

The aim of this study was to investigate the genetic and non-genetic effects on survival traits
of Sangsari sheep from birth to the last recording date. Data base with 35,470 sheep survival …

The objective of this study was to estimate genetic parameters for longevity and survival
traits from birth to yearling in Moghani breed of sheep. The data set comprised of 4580 lamb …