Grazing systems have great potential to promote animal welfare by allowing animals to
express natural behaviours, but they also present risks to the animals. Diseases caused by …

Pregnancy toxemia is a nutritional metabolic disease during late gestation in small
ruminants. The condition is characterized by disorders in carbohydrate and fat metabolism …

We propose a lightweight neural network-based method to detect the estrus behavior of
ewes. Our suggested method is mainly proposed to solve the problem of not being able to …

Lack of attention to rural healthcare for livestock in the southeastern United States has led to
a focus on small ruminant farming, mainly using sericea lespedeza [SL; Lespedeza cuneata …

This study aimed to investigate the effect of prepartum and postpartum feed restriction of fat-
tailed dairy sheep on colostrum IgG concentration, and performance and blood metabolites …

In this study, a farm-scale mathematical programming model for sheep and goat farms is
proposed to simulate economic performance, including new resilience sheep traits that …

Materials and Methods: A total of 18 male goats were randomly assigned to the three
systems: The free-range model (FREE), the semi-intensive model (SEMI), and the kept-in-a …

Silvopastoral agroforestry and the strategic placement of trees and hedgerows offers
potential to improve livestock welfare and production efficiency through the provision of …

Ovine pregnancy toxemia, a disease that affects adult ewes in the final stages of pregnancy
and which is caused by a negative energy imbalance, requires the usage of dextrose …

The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of water restriction and low-and high-energy
diets on sheep's thermoregulatory responses and ingestive behavior. Forty sheep, non …