Sheep and Goat Research - Organic Production

• Breed Selection and Breeding
• Disease and Parasite Management
• Feed
• Grazing and Pasture Management
• Meat Quality
• Welfare
  
  
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Breed Selection and Breeding

• NEW!! An assessment of the economic performance of organic dairy sheep farming in Greece
• Is intensification of reproduction rhythm sustainable in an organic sheep production system? A 4-year interdisciplinary study
• Organic goat production, processing and marketing: Opportunities, challenges and outlook
• Using rare breeds in organic farming systems

Disease and Parasite Management

• NEW!! Parasite Control on Organic Sheep Farms in Ontario
• The ability of the biological control agent Duddingtonia flagrans to reduce the availability of livestock parasites on pasture
• Anhydrobiosis increases survival of trichostrongyle nematodes
• DIY (Do It Yourself) Faecal Egg Counts in Sheep
• Effects of maternal protein nutrition and subsequent grazing on chicory on parasitism and performance of lambs
• The epidemiology of abomasal nematodes of sheep in Sweden, with particular reference to over-winter survival strategies
• Ethnoveterinary medicines used for ruminants in British Columbia, Canada
• European Union Integrated Project "Quality Low Input Food"
  • Effects of production methods
  • Livestock production systems

• Gastrointestinal nematodes on organic sheep farms and sustainable parasite control measures
• Identifying alternative parasiticides for use in the production of organic lamb (PDF, 2.0 MB)
• Immune-mediated pathology of nematode infection in sheep – is immunity beneficial to the animal?
• Influence of periparturient nutritional demand on resistance to parasites in livestock
• Managing Parasites of Grazing Livestock
• The peri-parturient rise in sheep.  Faecal worm egg counts in normal and late lambing ewes
• Prevalence and distribution of gastrointestinal nematodes on 32 organic and conventional commercial sheep farms in Ontario and Quebec
• Seasonal changes of gastrointestinal nematode burden in sheep under an intensive grazing system

• Selection of tannins by sheep in response to gastrointestinal nematode infection
• Study of the population dynamics of gastrointestinal nematodes in organic sheep farms in Canada with an attempt to introduce sustainable parasite control measures
• Tanniferous forage plants: Agronomic performance, palatability and efficacy against parasitic nematodes in sheep

Feed

• NEW!! Technical efficiency and viability of organic dairy sheep farming systems in a traditional area for sheep production in Spain
• Ethics of feeding: The omnivore dilemma
• Nutritionally related strategies for organic goat production

Grazing and Pasture Management

• Livestock and Forages: Essentials of Organic Farming?
• Management Strategies for Co-Grazing Steers and Sheep in Atlantic Canada
• Soil fauna in sheep-grazed hill pastures under organic and conventional livestock management and in an adjacent ungrazed pasture

Meat Quality

• NEW!! Comparison of the Sensory Characteristics of Suckling Lamb Meat: Organic vs Conventional Production
• Comparison of the meat and carcass quality of lambs raised in organic or conventional production systems

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