The sustainability of small ruminant livestock is one of the pillars of socio-economic sustainability and ecosystem services in many rural communities around the world. It is to help redefine these selection criteria that the European H2020 project SMARTER was established. The objective of this study was to analyse the genetic management practices ...
Published in Animals : an Open Access Journal from MDPI
Simple Summary Indigenous Tswana sheep are an important agricultural resource that largely contribute to the economic, socio-cultural and spiritual aspects of resource-poor farmers. Therefore, as was the aim of this study, exploring and describing the production system in which they are raised, their management including breeding practices is thus ...
L’établissement de facteurs d’émissions de particules primaires (TSP, PM10 et PM2,5) représentatifs desconditions d’élevage porcin et avicole français est essentiel pour la conduite d’une politique efficace deréduction des émissions de particules permettant le respect des engagements de la France au niveaueuropéen. C’est dans cet objectif que le pr...
Using local resources for ruminant feeding is a way to achieve agroecological production in pastoral farming systems. In North Mediterranean countries, sheep farming systems have evolved towards more intensive systems in lowland and hilly areas, whereas remote and rough pastureland is abandoned and local breeds are rarely maintained; rather, they a...
The ECOLAGNO project, led by Institut de l’Elevage, studied lamb fattening practices with an agroecological interest for outdoor or indoor productions, in order to meet societal expectations. Ten trialsinvolving 740 lambs mainly aimed at reducing farm inputs and consumption of biomass that can be usedby humans. The goal was to maximize the proporti...
Published in Animals : an open access journal from MDPI
It is estimated that around 40% of Australian households currently own dogs that have been acquired from a variety of sources, including purpose-bred litters. However, little is known about how litters are being planned, whelped, and raised and less still on what motivates breeders to adopt their current practices. The current study used on online ...
Published in Tropical Animal Health and Production
Local breeds are recognized as an important element for the maintenance of various and specific farming systems. Challenges for local breeds’ management, in a context of crossbreeding with exotic highly productive breeds, have been mainly studied in tropical countries. However, similar situation and challenges are likely to exist in Mediterranean c...
This work sets out a methodological approach to assess the relationships that exist between four sets of data: breeding practices, carcass characteristics, m. Longissimus thoracis biomarkers and m. Semitendinosus biomarkers. Seventy-one young bulls of 3 breeds were characterized by 78 variables. The variables in each set were arranged into 4, 3, 5 ...
Published in Zoonoses and public health
A Q fever outbreak in a small animal veterinary hospital, associated with a cat caesarean section, initiated a cat seroprevalence study (n = 712) that found circulating antibodies to Coxiella burnetii was highest in cattery-confined breeding cats (9.3%). These findings stimulated interest about potential sources of C. burnetii infection for cats an...
