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Synopsis: 2.0.. agro: Livestock: Cattle:

Many small-scale Ugandan farmers own a few cows, which are milked twice a day to sell locally or to larger dairies.

So, instead, they turned to another product that cows produce in abundance. A small farmer with five cows produces a lot of dung,

says Kisaalita. You can ferment the dung, and use a fraction of the biogas to run the milk chiller.

the small farmer could milk her cows in the evening, chill it, and then add more milk in the morning.

And if you don't chill milk within four hours of milking the cow the bacteria grows to a point where it just goes bad.

The team had found a way of replacing the nucleus of a sheep's egg cell with a nucleus from an adult ewe's cell,

From dogs to cows, scientists rushed to clone a menagerie of animals using Wilmut's technique, known as somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT.

The first, Noah, a threatened species of ox from Southeast asia called a guar, was born seemingly healthy on 8 january 2001.

Scientists at the American biotechnology company Advanced Cell Technologies who had helped pioneer cloning in cattle,

shuttled nuclei from gaur skin cells into cow eggs and then implanted the embryos into cows.

However, Noah died two days later of an infection unrelated to the cloning process. And like the guar, other attempts to clone endangered species through somatic cell nuclear transfer tended to be one-offs.

She read a chunk of the Senates healthcare reform bill, a document called oewhats in A can of Red Bull?(

The drive to make all food supplies local has touched off a number of battles to rewrite municipal codes to accommodate everything from rooftop gardens, to backyard cows and chickens

Clone Ranchers Raising blank#humans will be similar in many respects to cattle ranching. But once a clone is selected

and its pretty much a goat rodeo until someone sorts it out.##In one camp are established the long players.

#Cow collar texts ranchers when animals are sick or in heat Even cows can benefit from having a mobile device.

A new collar being developed for cattle ranchers could send cow health updates to farmers cellphones.

The device could help ranchers save money in the long run, monitoring the health of their animals and prevent accidental deaths.

The Silent Herdsman collar will track the movements of the cow using the same type of sensors found in Wii devices.

when cows are in heat The collar is being developed by researchers from the University of Strathclyde, Morrisons, Scottish Agricultural College, Harbro, Well Cow, National Milk Records (NMR) and Embedded Technology Solutions.

and around the world and we wish the partners every success.#This isn t the first invention to connect cattle to monitoring technology.

goats with spider genes that produce super-strength silk in their milk; and synthetic bacteria that decompose trash

A grizzled maverick of an engineer named David Hall designed the lidar that Google uses.

They drove teams of horses, herds of goats, drifts of sheep. Animals, Smith argues, are autonomous.

#Advocates like to say that there is no technical reason the new Mercedes needs hands on the wheel to steer through a turn.

occasionally had some cattle, but not usually,#Oster explained. Like all farmers, they worked with their hands, fixing, welding and building as things broke.

a maverick who dares to dream about the future and who s just unconventional enough to make it happen.

In Uganda, former vice president Gilbert Bukenya has promoted cattle ownership and small-scale production of cash crops that can quickly and easily be sold in urban markets.

Kenya s cows are the top milk producers in Africa, giving 4 billion liters of milk a year,

and marketing of milk that boosted farmers profits, then reinforced those gains by funding research into hardier, higher-output cow breeds.

Shortly thereafter the first genetically identical cows chickens, and sheep were produced. What made Dolly a sensation,

scientist have used SCNT to clone other mammals including cat, dog, deer, horse, mule, ox, rabbit and rat.

Repeatedly cloning cattle and cats went no further than the third generation. Frustrated scientists attempted to find out why successive cloning was progressively problematic.

the technique opens up the possibility of cloning highly-valued animals such as prized cattle or racehorses,

cows that produced humanized milk, evenolympic horses. Cloning remains a young science and scientists no doubt have a long list of organisms they would like to clone.

when scientists cloned a bucardo, an Iberian wild goat, that had gone extinct three years earlier, by inserting its DNA

(which they got from frozen bucardo skin) into the eggs of an existing goat. The cloned bucardo was born,

Three Possible Techniques Around the same time as the attempted revival of the bucardo in 2003, Robert Lanza, Chief Scientific Officer at Advanced Cell Technology, took tissue from a Javan banteng (not yet extinct),

and inserted it into an egg cell of a closely related cow. The cow gave birth to the exotic banteng,

which is still alive and thriving. Currently there are three semi-successful techniques being experimented with for de-extinction. 1.)Selective back-breeding of existing descendants to recreate a primordial ancestor is being used for the revival of the European Aurochs,

among others. 2.)Cloning with cells from cryopreserved tissue of a recently extinct animal can generate viable eggs.

and cattle being produced and harvested within its newly enclosed pastures redefined the American diet. In Las Cruces, New mexico, Venue met with Dean M. Anderson, a USDA scientist

a relatively straightforward technological innovation#GPS-equipped free-range cows that can be nudged back within virtual bounds by ear-mounted stimulus-delivery devices#has implications that could profoundly reshape our relationships with domesticated animals,

Anderson s directional virtual fencing is augmented nothing less than reality for cattle, a bovine New Aesthetic:

If gathering cows on horseback gave rise to the cowboy narratives of the West, we might ask in this context,

whether it s elephants in Africa or Hereford cows in Las Cruces, New mexico. You will have seen this,

you might have your cows way over on the western perimeter of your land, while the rainfall takes place along the other Edge in two weeks,

Which means your cows are all in the wrong place. It s a lose-lose, rather than a win-win.

and program the polygon that contains your cows to move spatially and temporally over the landscape to this#oebetter location.#

and manpower to gather your cows, you would simply move the virtual fence. It s like those join-the-dots coloring books#you end up with a bunch of coordinates that you connect to build a fence.

and you program cows to move on your ranch in Montana, and you don t have anybody out on the ground in Montana monitoring

and say,#oethe data saying that this number of cows should be in this polygon for this many days are accurate##or not.

How do you interface with the cow in order to stimulate the behavior that you want? Anderson:

what we know about cow hearing. Cows and humans are similar, but not identical. These cues were developed to fit the animal that we are trying to manage.

Now, if we go back to me as the example, I m very stubborn. I need a little higher level of irritation to change my behavior.

so we cut it right down for our version As the cow moves toward the virtual fence perimeter,

As the cow approaches a virtual fence boundary, we send the cues on the acute side,

If we tried to move the cow by cuing the obtuse side, she would have had to move deeper into the irritation gradient before being able to exit it.

the cow was observed standing near drinking water during this time. Anderson/#Virtual Fencing: Past, Present, and Future#)The key is,

when I put heart rate monitors on cows wearing my DVFDEVICES. I actually found more of a spike in their heart rates

Diagram showing two cows responding differently to the virtual boundary: Cow 4132 (in green) penetrates the boundary zone more deeply,

I m going to say#cows are, in fact smarter than human beings in a number of ways.

I had a Hereford/Angus cross cow, and she was a smart old girl. I started to cue her.

which have Rambouillet and Polypay genetics, were basically right-handed. You ll want to take a look at the data, of course,

#I m curious as to how dynamic virtual fencing affects how cows perceive the landscape. Anderson:

cattle would still not cross the line where it had been located. So this could indeed be an issue with virtual fencing,

Part of the reason is that cows want to eat, so if the polygon that contains the animals is programmed to move toward good forage,

the cows will follow. It s almost like a moving feed bunk, if you will. I m sure that, in time#I would almost bet money on this#that

One day when I was out manually gathering my cows on an ATV I put a voice-activated recorder in my pocket

The cows moved to the corral based on the cue without me actually being present to manually gather them#it was an autonomous gather.

Why not try to manage on cow time, rather than our own egotistical needs##oeat eight o clock,

I want these cows in so I can brand them,#or whatever. Why not mesh management routines with their innate behaviors instead?

##oemaggie the milking cow is the focus of the room and is milked hundreds of times every day by children and adults.

and then trying their hand at milking Maggie the cow. Maggie will be on display in the children s department until November,

River Forest Public library in River Forest, Illinois) Kansas Hog-butchering demonstration (Central Resource Library, Overland Park, KS)# entioned in a recent Wall street journal article

or tracking down cattle that have wandered off help farmers recover the investment, often within a year.

Clone Ranchers Raisingblank humans will be similar in many respects to cattle ranching. But once a clone is selected,

In their new study Uno and his team tested the radiocarbon dating technique on the tusks of two elephants that died in 2006 and 2008 as well as elephant and hippo teeth monkey hair and oryx horn.

For example scientists can take a normal embryo from the uterus of one cow transplant it into another

and have a 60 percent chance of a normal calf being born. Transferring a cloned cow embryo into a cow uterus results in a healthy calf less than 10 percent of the time Cibelli told Livescience.

When you see that scenario whoever wants to move this into humans quickly I think it should be said criminal Cibelli.

In 2003 biologists brought back a Pyrenean ibex by making a clone of frozen tissues harvested from the last of these goats.

Live animals are used only to provide cells from which cell lines can be grown (though the blood of unborn cows is needed to culture most cells.

UAV developers might even conceive of a squadron of drones with heat-sensing cameras flying across the vast plains of Central asia's Ustyurt Plateau searching for signs of saiga-antelope poachers.

when converting vegetable mass into protein as pigs and five times as efficient as cattle. In addition the husbandry associated with raising grasshoppers is compared relatively simple to that needed for cattle chickens

or hogs and their rapid reproduction rate and short life cycle allows a stable and continuous harvest.

Finally it would be much easier to transport insects to Mars than to send large animals.

can trigger abortions in goats and sheep and cause flu-like symptoms and sometimes pneumonia in humans.

and agriculture ministries coordinated their efforts poorly before they ordered a cull of more than 50,000 dairy goats in 2009,

One of those animals, a cow, secretes milk that lacks an allergy-inducing protein because researchers accurately blocked its production using the technique of RNA interference1.

For years, researchers tried to remove the allergy-inducing milk protein beta-lactoglobulin from cow's milk

They inserted DNA encoding a version of this microrna into the genome to create genetically modified cow embryos that they hoped would grow into cows without the allergen in their milk.

Out of 100 embryos, one calf yielded beta-globulin-free milk.""This isn t a quick process,

That's why it has taken so long to succeed in making an allergen-free cow, he says.

and cows can now be thought of as big mice, but we are moving in that direction,

Wagner says he has tasted not the milk from his special cow because he s not permitted to under New zealand law."

In the west ranchers set barbed wire to hold their cattle and this in effect set up their property boundaries.@

They let their cattle just roam free. Luckily the cattle are not a consideration for the land of the moon.

I think the real goal would be to mine Helium3 if possible. But if the homesteaders find water somewhere in the depths of the moon too I feel water found on the moon would be worth like gold

A grizzled maverick of an engineer named David Hall designed the lidar that Google uses.

They drove teams of horses herds of goats drifts of sheep. Animals Smith argues are autonomous.

Advocates like to say that there is no technical reason the new Mercedes needs hands on the wheel to steer through a turn.

I don't think all people are cattle but I do think a large majority of the 8. 3 Billion on this planet are in that category.

First Long term Study Released on Pigs Cattle Who Eat GMO Soy and Corn Offers Frightening Results www. nationofchange. org/first-long-term-study-released-pigs-cattle-who-eat-gmo-soy

-and-corn-offers-frightening-results-13723stunning Corn Comparison: GMO versus NON GMO www. momsacrossamerica. com stunning corn comparison gmo versus non gmoknown to Kill Cows Castrate Wildlife Induce Spontaneous abortion in Lab Rats...

And it's Likely in Your Water articles. mercola. com/sites/articles/archive/2012/07/19/gmo-corn-resulting-livestock-deaths. aspx?

Muscle stem cells were taken from a cow's shoulder in a gentle biopsy and grown in calf serum with micro-exercise

so they wouldn't be flabby. 20000 cells were assembled then into a burger bound with bread crumbs

Or Growth Meatwe can't just keep ading more and more cattle pigs chickens ect. The amount of livestock we have now has a large environmental impact.

This could be a viable alternative to supplement our food supply cheers. yea sure say good bye to all those cows why raise em

and mennonites and zoos and peta freaks cows will go extinct well we might keep a herd for genetic improvement

With an exponentially growing population of 8. 3 billion there isn't enough feed in the world to keep that number of cattle pigs

One of them was claiming that a cow uses 28 calories of grass to make a calorie of beef

Those 28 calories of grass the cow uses to make a calorie of beef are mostly celuloise a long chain poly-sacaride that is indigestable to humans and most other mammals.

1) Not efficient-The current growth medium is made from butchered calves. That means the original grass or grain must be fed to a cow first

and then the unused food value that remains in the blood of the calf after slaughter is available for meat production plus some additionally highly processed nutrients. 2) Amoral

-While the cow had a gentle biopsy the calves didn't have it so nice

when their blood was extracted. This is a bit of a deal killer for vegans or those morally opposed to killing sentient animals for food.

I'm all about only domesticated animals like cows...they don't want to eat me just stare at

Now we are going beyond that to understand how flies steer and maneuver. Learning how nature creates superior sensors could lead to lighter smarter drones.

#New vaccine against lung diseases in goats and sheepan intranasal spray was developed using local isolated bacterium in Malaysia

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.

since in Malaysia alone there were more than 600000 goats 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

Virginia Tech and World Wildlife Fund researchers have found that tigers in central Sumatra live at very low densities lower than previously believed according to a study in the April 2013 issue of Oryx--The International Journal of Conservation.

Corn ethanol's byproduct--called distiller's dried grains--can be used as cattle feed but cellulosic ethanol's byproduct--called high-lignin residue--is perceived often as less valuable.

and beef cattle with an enriched diet of flaxseed and other omega-3 rich grains have fewer respiratory diseases.

The cattle also have higher fertility rates which helps offset infertility among dairy cattle. The technology to enrich ground beef with omega-3s is a spinoff of flaxseed research Drouillard began in 1998.

Drouillard and his students studied flax for several of its omega-3 fatty acids that may suppress inflammation

and reduce diabetes in cattle. Research showed that omega-3 levels dramatically increased in the cattle as more flaxseed was introduced into their diet.

Keeping the omega-3s from becoming saturated fats in cattle's digestive system is a challenge however.

Microorganisms in the rumen--the largest chamber in the cow's stomach--modify most of the ingested fats and turn them into saturated fats.

This causes ground beef to have low levels of omega-3s. Christian Alvarado Gilis a doctoral candidate in animal sciences and industry is researching how to improve omega-3 levels in cattle diets to further enhance the fat profile of beef.

Gilis is from Chile. According to Drouillard substituting omega-3 fatty acids for saturated fats does not change the ground beef's flavor.

#Cow behavior changes in response to deterioration in healthwhen a cow develops mastitis her behaviour changes

when the cow is milked but is it possible to recognise the signs of this diseases in other ways and even earlier?

A dairy cow becomes restless four hours after it contracts bacterial mastitis. Simultaneously the other symptoms of a steadily progressing inflammation such as increased body temperature

while changes in a cow's behaviour acted as an indicator for a change in the cow's health says Jutta Kauppi summing up the results of her study.

when a cow has failed to enter the robot for milking or when it has failed several milking attempts in its history.

Kauppi's doctoral dissertation sought to identify critical points in cow behaviour pointing to deterioration in the cow's health.

Changes in cow behaviour including restlessness proved promising indicators for an incipient change in health status. To our surprise changes in milk composition were identifiable before such symptoms were evident

The study also investigated alterations in cow behaviour in relation to successful completion of robotic milking procedure as well as in dairy management practices

Technology provides extra set of eyes for the stockpersonin addition to the stockperson's good eye for cattle technology is used heavily in the modern cowshed in feeding cattle in ensuring a successful completion of milking and in monitoring cows'health and activity levels.

Because some cows are naturally more active than others technology alone is insufficient detect decreasing health status of a cow.

and production technology at our disposal but it is the stockperson who knows its cattle

and a well-functioning interaction between the stockperson the cow and technology become pronounced she continuesresearch on animal welfare

This will enable the launch of preventive measures at an earlier stage than before affecting the process of a cow contracting a disease and shortening the recovery time.

Mastitis is extremely harmful for both the farmer and the cow. When an inflammation has gained a footing the cow is seriously ill.

The milk extracted from the cow is also unsuitable for the food chain causing substantial loss due to treatment with antibiotics

because it goes literally down the drain. With regard to the cow's well-being and the financial impact caused by the disease warning signals should be intercepted as early

and comprehensively as possible Jutta Kauppi concludes. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by MTT Agrifood Research Finland.

and wheat along with such livestock products as ruminant (animals like cattle goats and sheep that subsist on plant matter) pork and poultry.

Among the technologies evaluated in situ are floor type in cattle housing use of additives in slurry storage manure turning flexible lagoons for collective slurry storage biowashers for gases at the outlet of air ducts of the sheds

In this part of the continent a considerable proportion of livestock production takes place in line with the intensive model as in the case of pig poultry and a large proportion of cattle livestock.

and human health They live in the digestive systems of cattle and sheep where they facilitate the digestion of feed consumed in the diet.

Beta-agonists, the environment and cattle fatiguein agricultural production maintaining a level of excellence that includes environmental sustainability animal welfare

and rightfully so might hold beef to an even higher standard of excellence said Dan Thomson Kansas State university veterinarian professor and director of the Beef cattle Institute.

The use of beta-agonists in cattle feeding is among the modern feedlot technologies making waves in the beef industry.

K-State researchers including Thomson are among the many researchers who are examining how beta-agonists affect cattle performance

and how the feed supplement might cause cattle particularly in the summer months to be slow-moving and stiff-muscled once they arrive at packing facilities.

Are we using low-stress cattle handling techniques? How far away from the load out facility are the fat cattle being moved?

Are we shipping them during the afternoon in the heat of the day or are we shipping them at 2 a m.?

History of beta-agonist usefeedlots have used beta-agonists a cattle feed supplement approved by the U s. Food

and Drug Administration (FDA) and considered safe from a food safety perspective to improve the cattle's natural ability to convert feed into more lean muscle.

Zilmax formally known as zilpaterol hydrocholoride is one of only two beta-agonists approved for cattle feeding on the market.

However Merck Animal health manufacturer of Zilmax voluntarily suspended sales of the product last September when major U s. meat packer Tyson announced it would stop buying cattle fed Zilmax due to an animal welfare concern

which questioned if the product affected the ambulatory ability or movement of cattle. Thomson said that

because the slow-moving cattle reports were more consistent during the summer months he has questioned how heat stress

what he calls cattle fatigue syndrome. This isn't a new phenomenon Thomson said. We've seen this in other species. The swine industry 15 to 20 years ago discovered pig fatigue syndrome.

Market hogs would arrive at the plant and they were stiff open-mouth breathing had blotchy skin muscle tremors

Regardless of beta-agonist use in feeding pigs Thomson said the swine industry went from having about a 250-lb. average out weight to a 300-lb. average out weight on market hogs.

So the hogs had more weight to carry around at the packing facility. To see if beta-agonists played a role in the movement concerns researchers did a series of tests on market hogs that were fed not beta-agonists They put some through a stressful situation prior to shipping them to slaughter

They were able to recreate the same syndrome that we're now seeing in some cattle Thomson said.

or not showed clinical signs of fatigue in these market hogs. Still the swine industry has

A closer look at cattle fatigue syndromethe beef industry has a really good start on understanding

what cattle fatigue syndrome is said Thomson but the reason more research must be done is that like the NANI pigs the syndrome has shown up in cattle that were fed a beta-agonist

and cattle that were fed not a beta-agonist. In our research when we've looked at cattle that are stressed not

and they're on one of the beta-agonists on the market we've not seen anything

but an increase in heart rate by about 10 beats per minute and no difference in lactate or CPK levels Thomson said.

when we have seen the issues with this fatigue cattle syndrome at packing facilities it's during the summer months

Moving forward Thomson said the industry needs to better-understand the clinical and physiological responses of beta-agonists in cattle

if dosages in cattle feeding rations might need to be altered and if there is a potential genetic component to it as well.

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