or hundreds of TONS a day from a single vat and some psycho or terrorist contaminates the vat with the Sheep Scrapie Mad cow disease Kuru or Croitzfeld-Jacobs Disease prion?
#England, Meet Your New Giant Sheep-Eating Plantpuya chilensis is a very large bromeliad native to the mountains of Chile.
This plant is sometimes known as a sheep-eating plant which is not strictly speaking accurate: it is not a carnivorous plant like the well-known pitcher plant
Instead scientists believe that the spikes trap animals with thick fur like sheep which then starve to death fall to the ground
We also have the stunning blue Puya berteroniana. 1. Good and evil do not exist-this is a plant that wants to survive just like those sheep eat grass to survive-news flash-they KILL the grass.
I like sheep and so this plant is evil in my heart! wonder i feel like u wouldn't feel that way
if there was a lot of sheep around u and u were out of food...and now everyone is growing the Zombie Plant at home
Now Mitalipov and his team have made clones using the same basic technique that created Dolly the cloned sheep in 1996.
The process that created Dolly the sheep in 1996 has now been proven successful in humans...
Dolly the sheep did come to term as a living breathing sheep YES. The human enbryo via a scientific choice did not come to term by was exploited for other purposes then disposed of.
If you do a Google search for pictures of Dolly the clone sheep you will find many.@
It's how they made Dolly the sheep. It's viable enough. Kill that embryo
There is one good declaration of science in developing the sheep embryo to full term and adulthood.
and sheep giving the animals fevers and blisters and reducing the amount of milk they give.
Pretty sure I just heard a sheep. Or maybe someone imitating a sheep. In what kind of weird coffeeshop was recorded this?
Is there a coffeeshop with a sheep in it somewhere? Where is this sheep I want to drink coffee near it. 12:36:
Talked to my friend Lindsey Weber who is a very good entertainment blogger and often works from coffeeshops.
She says: There's nothing more depressing then being fooled into thinking that there's coffee nearby when there actually isn't. 12:37:
Got distracted and started looking at Wikipedia articles about sheep. Remembered that when I was a kid
and sheep were the same animal just that goats were male and sheep were female.
I'm not sure when I realized this wasn't true but it might have been around the first time
THERE'S THE SHEEP AGAIN! It comes in at around 4: 00 if you guys are curious. 12:49:
Just spent 5 minutes reading about different breeds of sheep. There are a lot of breeds of sheep.
Early research suggests the Jacob sheep is one of the coolest sheeps. 12:51: Starting to get kind of soothing!
I work for 10 minutes and then listen for the sheep and then work for 10 more minutes with small breaks for wondering
whether a coffeeshop with a sheep in it could be a successful business. I think probably it could everyone loves sheep right?
12:55: Nobody's asked me what I'm listening to yet. I think I'd probably lie. 12:56:
Is the spelling weird on the name of the service too? Shouldn't it be Coffeetivity?
Unignorable sheep sound is unignorablethere is an hours long loop of the Enterprise D engine noise on Youtube.
and their cattle sheep goats horses etc. The name was actually an accurate description of the land at the time.
non-primate mammals such as pigs sheep and cows. Humans don t make the sugar and we all have some form of immune response to it.
In response an international research team suggests eight ways to make ruminant agriculture aising cows goats sheep buffalo camels llamas reindeer and yaks for meat and dairy nvironmentally sustainable.
Instead of feeding livestock grains like wheat corn and soybeans stress the researchers cows goats sheep
several varieties of sheep have been turned out together on the Cumberland mountains and one particular breed is found to succeed so much better than all the others that it fairly starves the others to death.
Among the largest human-related sources of methane are ruminant animals (cattle sheep goats and buffalo) and fossil fuel extraction and combustion.
and sheep production are 19 to 48 times higher (on the basis of pounds of food produced) than they are from producing protein-rich plant foods such as beans grains or soy products.
and easily infect farm animals such as cows sheep pigs and chickens. Humans can be infected by eating undercooked meat or unwashed vegetables.
#Controlling parasitic worms with genetic selectionhelminths are gastrointestinal parasitic worms that have become a major concern and source of economic loss for sheep producers around the world.
According to the paper the sheep industry has become dependent on drugs to control these parasites. Over time these drugs are less effective as helminths become resistant to the drugs.
Certain breeds of sheep are more immune to helminths than the conventional breeds used in Canada
This is key for the public as well as the sheep industry. With today's developments in genomic selection breeding sheep for helminth resistance can be achieved efficiently without adversely affecting other economically important traits explained Niel Karrow lead author of the paper a researcher at the Centre for Genetic Improvement of Livestock at the University of Guelph.
We believe that breeding for helminth resistance when combined with good biosecurity and pasture management practises will greatly help to control against production losses due to gastrointestinal parasites.
And Soay sheep can eat up to 30 percent moss in winter. Analysis of the pikas'caecal pellets showed they contained six times more protein than the moss they ate.
what cows sheep pigs poultry and other farm animals are eating in different parts of the world;
Meat v. dairy grazing animals v. poultry and porkthe study shows that ruminant animals (cows sheep
and poultry (monogastrics) are more efficient at converting feed into protein than are cattle sheep
#No fluke as parasites nuked with innovative toolkittyndall National Institute Ireland has announced the development of a new diagnostic toolkit--Flukeless--to help in the fight against liver fluke in cattle and sheep.
Whether from cows goats or sheep raw milk and milk products are a continuing source of bacterial infections that are especially dangerous to pregnant women fetuses the elderly young children
or pneumonic diseases in goats and sheep that was developed and patented by its scientists. The soft launch of STVAC7 the first intranasal spray vaccine for goats
and sheep was officiated by the Deputy Minister of Science Technology and Innovation Datuk Dr Abu Bakar Mohamad Diah in a brief ceremony on 24.oct 2013.
and sheep at present and the figure is expected to increase to 1 million by 2015 a growth rate of 12.1%as projected by the Veterinary Services Department.
or respiratory diseases of goats and sheep caused by bacteria. It was developed and produced using sophisticated recombinant technology
which unlike the imported vaccines has been demonstrated to provide protection against bacterium infection in the small ruminants like goats and sheep.
and the goats and sheep farmers could benefit from the STVAC7. The product itself is ready for the market
The situation is so serious that the sheep industry could be under threat. It is therefore crucial to identify the causes and implement preventative measures.
The answer may be found somewhere within the genetics of the sheep and the course of the disease assessment and control of tick populations and biological control of ticks.
Weakens the immune systemtick-bites in sheep may result in the disease tick-borne fever (TBF) induced by the bacterium Anaplasma phagocytophilum (A. ph). TBF causes high fever
but makes sheep more susceptible to secondary infections. Arthritis is the most common disease that can arise.
It is recommended therefore to vaccinate sheep against pastuerella in areas where tick-borne fever is prevalent.
There have been attempts to uncover this by using radio transmitters to monitor the sheep. However in practice it has proved difficult to find the mortalities
Breeding resistant animalswork is currently in progress to develop measures that may help sheep tolerate tick bites better.
but as far as we know nobody has died from this says Grã¸va. Sick sheep are slaughtered not.
Some sheep can be healthy carriers where the meat is considered safe. The bacterium is absorbed not through the gut
Grã¸va says it is possible that the research on sheep and ticks could benefit humans.
if fungal spores can have impact on tick populations This could contribute in helping us control tick populations for example in restricted areas such as spring pasture for sheep.
whether fungus can kill ticks in sheep pastures. This would also benefit future hikers. Tick##ites in sheep can lead to the disease tick-borne fever (TBF)
which causes high fever and weakens the immune system. As a result of TBF animals may become seriously ill from diseases they usually cope with.
Bioforsk is therefore conducting field trials where the aim is to reduce tick populations in sheep grazing areas by using a tick pathogenic fungus called Metarhizium.
Potential for recreational areasif the application of Bipesco 5 against ticks in sheep pasture is successful the areas of application could potentially also benefit hikers:
When ruminants such as cows goats and sheep are consuming the plants from a silvopastoral system researchers have seen an increase in growth and milk production.
Farmers are now using faster maturing Gala goats red Maasai sheep and chickens along with improved cassava varieties that resist a deadly virus. They also are growing high-value crops like tomatoes onions and watermelons.
#Overgrazing turning parts of Mongolian Steppe into desertovergrazing by millions of sheep and goats is the primary cause of degraded land in the Mongolian Steppe one of the largest remaining grassland ecosystems in the world Oregon State university researchers say in a new report.
and a huge surge in the number of grazing animals occurred during just the past decade--especially sheep and goats that cause more damage than cattle.
and colleagues examined the embryos conceived in four groups of female sheep. The first group of sheep was overnourished from four months before conception until one week after conception.
The second group of sheep was overnourished for three months and then placed on a diet for one month before and one week after conception.
The third group of sheep was placed on a normal or control diet from four months before conception until one week after conception.
The fourth group was fed a control diet for three months and then these normal weight sheep were placed on a diet for one month before conception until one week after conception.
One week after conception embryos from all of these sheep were transferred to normal weight normally nourished sheep for the remainder of pregnancy.
Liver samples were taken from the lambs born to these ewes at four months of age to examine their genes and proteins.
or the barber pole worm a well-studied parasitic worm that resides in the gut of sheep and other livestock globally.
and are estimated to cost the UK sheep industry alone more than £80 million pounds each year. H. contortus has become resistant to all major treatments against parasitic worms
and did not have pigs sheep goats or cows all of which were introduced to Europe with incoming farmers about 6000 BC.
The study suggests that Neolithic farmers used the dung from their herds of cattle sheep goats and pigs as a slow release fertiliser for crops.
--and drawbacks--of grazing by larger vertebrates such as cows and sheep but we haven't studied in detail the impact slugs might have particularly on very young plants in meadows that we are trying to restore
She said the study which examines the effects of BPA on sheep improves the understanding of how prenatal BPA exposure regulates the inflammatory response in offspring in the tissues that are relevant to development of metabolic disease.
Veiga-Lopez said sheep have similar body fat to that in humans including visceral (deep belly) fat and subcutaneous fat
The researchers fed two groups of pregnant sheep corn oil either with nothing added to it
or with added BPA at a dose needed to achieve BPA levels similar to those seen in human cord blood in the umbilical cord blood of the sheep offspring.
Of the female offspring from the sheep half from each group were overfed at approximately 6 weeks of age.
At 15 months of age sheep underwent a glucose tolerance test to measure their insulin and blood sugar levels.
However she said prenatal exposure to BPA did not lead to insulin resistance in sheep as was true in a previous mouse study.
Although the majority of these attacks (78%)were carried out against poultry sheep depredation resulted in higher economic losses.
However the team has begun already to erect electric fences to avoid attacks to sheep with an ideal result.
and sheep can be found at the site.''By studying the levels of isotopes in the bones we can for example find out where the animals were raised
and stillbirths in sheep goats and cattle was discovered first in Germany in late 2011 and has already spread to more than 5000 farms across Europe and 1500 farms in the UK alone.
but is responsible for stillbirths and birth defects in cattle sheep and goats. The Department for Environment Food and Rural affairs (DEFRA) believes the disease was brought probably into the UK from infected midges blown across the Channel.
The cells also known to modulate inflammation were injected into fetal sheep at 55 to 62 days gestation.
SBV is discovered a recently pathogen of livestock such as cattle sheep and goats. The researchers have laid bare important ways by which this virus causes disease.
During a 3-year study researchers found that removing these small animals from the soil of a replicated Scottish sheep meadow altered the plant species that grew in the ecosystem reduced overall productivity
Now livestock such as sheep offer an intriguing animal to examine adaptation to climate change with a genetic legacy of centuries of selected breeding and a wealth of livestock genome-wide data available.
In a first-of-its kind study that combined molecular and environmental data professor Meng-Hua Li et al. performed a search for genes under environmental selection from domesticated sheep breeds.
The authors used a set of data (the sheep Hapmap project consisting of nearly 50000 unique mutational differences called single nucleotide polymorphisms
or SNPS) that were collected on a sample of 32 different sheep breeds adapted to a number of regional and extreme contrasting climates.
and precipitation are the main factors influencing the local adaptation of sheep by their indirect effects on the amount of grasses and vegetation available.
and sheep industries in the United states an estimated $125 million annually manages to survive the winter by reproducing in the insect that transmits it report veterinary scientists at the University of California Davis. The findings solve a century-old mystery
The disease mostly sickens sheep but also infects cattle and goats as well as deer and other wild ruminants.
The name bluetongue derives from the swollen lips and tongue of affected sheep which may turn blue in the late stages of the disease.
Cows sheep and pigs were eaten also but collectively made up less than 20 percent of leopard's food.
while other species may prefer birds dogs sheep etc. However Pitts argues that these insects are opportunists rather than true specialists.
Domestication of animals started as early as 9000 to 15000 years ago and initially involved dogs cattle sheep goats and pigs.
#Sheepdogs use simple rules to herd sheepsheepdogs use just two simple rules to round up large herds of sheep scientists have discovered.
Until now they had no idea how the dogs manage to get so many unwilling sheep to move in the same direction.
NERC fellow Dr Andrew King of Swansea University fitted a flock of sheep and a sheepdog with backpacks containing extremely accurate GPS devices designed by colleagues at the Royal Veterinary College London.
to collect the sheep when they're dispersed and drive them forward when they're aggregated.
'If you watch sheepdogs rounding up sheep the dog weaves back and forth behind the flock in exactly the way that we see in the model'says King.'
If the dog sees gaps between the sheep or the gaps are getting bigger the dog needs to bring them together'he explains.'
They first examined the relationship between each sheep's body weight and its level of infection with nematodes tiny parasitic worms that thrive in the gastrointestinal tract of sheep.
The level of infection was determined by the number of nematode eggs per gram of the animal's feces.
an adult female sheep with the maximum egg count of 2000 eggs per gram of feces might lose as little as 2 percent or as much as 20 percent of her body weight.
The researchers then tracked the number of offspring produced by each of nearly 2500 sheep
and found that sheep with the highest tolerance to nematode infection produced the most offspring while sheep with lower parasite tolerance left fewer descendants.
Graham and her colleagues used the wealth of information collected over many years on the Soay sheep living on the island of Hirta about 100 miles west of the Scottish mainland.
These sheep provide a unique opportunity to study the effects of parasites weather vegetation changes and other factors on a population of wild animals.
Brought to the island by people about 4000 years ago the sheep have run wild since the last permanent human inhabitants left Hirta in 1930.
By keeping a detailed pedigree the researchers of the St kilda Soay Sheep Project can trace any individual's ancestry back to the beginning of the project in 1985
Graham and her colleagues identified a similar evolutionary tradeoff in a 2010 study that compared immune-response levels and reproductive success in female Soay sheep.
The team has not yet been able to detect costs of parasite tolerance in the sheep
Sheep comprised 9 percent buffalo 7 percent pigs 5 percent and goats 4 percent. That tasty hamburger is the real culprit Caldeira said.
Kohl says he'd like to transplant woodrat gut microbes into sheep or goats to find out if that increases their tolerance to toxic foods.
Farmers are interested in getting their sheep and goats to eat juniper. The study was funded by the National Science Foundation.
The aim is to increase the herdsman's capital in the form of sheep. Players have to take decisions that depend not only on the state of the grazing land but also on the day-to-day challenges of life in the steppes.
#A sheeps early life experiences can shape behavior in later lifenew research has found that a sheep's experiences soon after birth can shape its later behaviour and also that of its offspring.
The research team found that female sheep that had docked their tails or experienced a mild simulated infection shortly after they were born showed more pain-related behaviour
The disease affects sheep and cattle and is spread by biting midges. In sheep the bluetongue virus can cause abortion congenital abnormalities
and death though mild cases completely recover. In cattle bluetongue does not generally cause death.
But an additional factor influences the disease state in the case of this disease which is that it affects sheep much more severely than cattle.
If the disease reproduction number for the cattle-midge-bluetongue system with or without sheep is greater than one bluetongue persists in cattle
and midges even though it may eradicate the sheep relying on cattle as a reservoir. In the second situation where the reproduction number of all host and vector species coexisting is greater than one
while the reproduction number for the cattle-midge-bluetongue system (without sheep) is less than one bluetongue
and bluetongue does not eradicate sheep because it cannot persist on midges and cattle alone.
and wheat along with such livestock products as ruminant (animals like cattle goats and sheep that subsist on plant matter) pork and poultry.
and in the middle of the day but moved much higher--about 100m higher--when sheep were present.
when sheep were either present or absent. To their surprise they discovered that competition with sheep had a far greater effect on Chamois than the predicted effects of future climate change.
Study co-author Dr Stephen Willis in Durham University's Department of Biological and Biomedical sciences said:
The presence of flocks of sheep--which compete with Chamois for food--disturbed the normal behavioural patterns of Chamois forcing them to much higher elevations than they would normally use.
In the case of Chamois in The alps this could involve restricting sheep from higher elevations in some areas added Dr Mason who is based now at Laval University Canada.
Not a true apple this relative of the eggplant smothers native grasses with its thorny stalks while its striking yellow fruit provides a deadly temptation to sheep and cattle.
On the other hand grazers such as cows sheep and zebras primarily eat grass which is rarely poisonous. These animals easily succumb to the Sodom apple.
A 2011 study on sheep published in the journal Kenya Veterinarian showed that the plant caused emphysema pneumonia bleeding ulcers brain swelling and death among other effects.
#Genetic control mechanism for major livestock pest developedresearchers from North carolina State university have developed a technique to control populations of the Australian sheep blowfly--a major livestock pest in Australia
Dr. Max Scott professor of entomology at NC State and his research team genetically modified lines of female Australian sheep blowflies (Lucilia cuprina) so that they required doses of tetracycline in order to live.
In the study the researchers showed that the tetracycline gene construct also works in Drosophila the fruit fly lab rat of the insect world that is a distant cousin of the sheep blowfly.
and Old world screwworm two major livestock pests that are close relatives of the sheep blowfly.
The EPA attributes one-fifth of methane emissions to livestock such as cattle sheep and other ruminants.
and in a country like New zealand (NZ) where the sheep outnumber people 7 to 1 that's a big deal.
and specialized analysis techniques to explore the contents of the rumens of sheep in collaboration with NZ's Agresearch Limited to see what role ruminant microbiomes (the microbes living in the rumen) play in this process.
The study was published online June 6 2014 in Genome Research We wanted to understand why some sheep produce a lot
To learn why the amount of methane that ruminants produce varies the researchers took advantage of a large sheep screening
The team measured the methane yields from a cohort of 22 sheep and from this group they selected four sheep with the lowest methane emissions four sheep with the highest emissions and two sheep with intermediate emission levels.
Rumen metagenome DNA samples collected on two occasions from the 10 sheep were sequenced at the DOE JGI generating 50 billion bases of data each.
The deep sequencing study contributes to this breeding program by defining the microbial contribution to the methane trait which can be used
if there was a correlation between the proportions of methanogens in the eight sheep with the highest and lowest recorded methane emissions.
In sheep with low methane emissions they found elevated levels of one particular species of methanogen (Methanosphaera)
while sheep with high methane emissions had elevated levels of another group of methanogens (Methanobrevibacter gottschalkii).
and methanogen abundance across sheep were rather subtle the team reported that the expression levels of genes involved in methane production varied more substantially across sheep suggesting differential gene regulation perhaps controlled by hydrogen concentration in the rumen
Screening and breeding for low-methane producing sheep is still underway and importantly low-methane lines then need to be tested for stability of the trait as well as the absence of any impacts on fertility or meat or wool production.
and for there to be slow but incremental changes to the sheep industry in subsequent years.
In the United states in 2004 researchers estimated annual losses due to coyote predation on sheep and cattle at $40 million.
Sarcocystis thermostable PCR detection kit developedconsumption of undercooked cyst-laden meat from cattle sheep and goats may cause infection in humans.
Sarcosytis spp are intracellular protozoan parasites acquired upon consumption of undercooked cyst-laden meat from cattle sheep and goats.
#Gene study shows how sheep first separated from goatsscientists have cracked the genetic code of sheep to reveal how they became a distinct species from goats around four million years ago.
The study is the first to pinpoint the genetic differences that make sheep different from other animals.
The research identifies the genes that give sheep their fleece and uncovers features of their digestive system
It also builds the most complete picture yet of sheep's complex biology. Further studies using this resource could reveal new insights to diseases that affect sheep.
Researchers from the University of Edinburgh's Roslin Institute which receives strategic funding from the Biotechnology
This team--the International Sheep Genomics Consortium--compared the sheep's genes with those of other animals--including humans cattle goats and pigs.
Sheep were one of the first animals to be domesticated for farming and are still an important part of the global agricultural economy.
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