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From Sensors to Sustainability: Integrating Welfare, Management, and Climate Resilience in Small Ruminant Farm Systems

08/11/2025 - In recent years, animal welfare has become a high priority in livestock production systems owing to the pressure to balance environmental sustainability, productivity, and ethics as demand continues...

57 Efficacy of a lidocaine impregnated band on pain mitigation for tail docking.

04/10/2025 - Tail docking improves hygiene, reduces flystrike, and enhances efficiency for routine husbandry practices such as shearing, serving as an important management practice that promotes sheep health....

PSX-10 High protein and energy feed supplementation enhance gastrointestinal parasite resilience in organic farming sheep.

04/10/2025 - The management of gastrointestinal parasite (GIP) in organic sheep is a challenging issue as chemical anthelmintic drugs is prohibited use in organic production. This trial was to evaluate the high...

Voluntary Additional Welfare Monitoring of Farm Animals Used in Research: Maximising Benefits Requires Sustained Support

26/09/2025 - The aim of this project was to co-create an animal welfare monitoring system that incorporated both positive and negative welfare measures that would contribute to best practice husbandry standards...

Design and Development of an Intelligent Robotic Feeding Control System for Sheep

09/09/2025 - With the widespread adoption of intelligent technologies in animal husbandry, traditional manual feeding methods can no longer meet the demands for precision and efficiency in modern sheep farming....

High-Performance Automated Detection of Sheep Binocular Eye Temperatures and Their Correlation with Rectal Temperature

22/08/2025 - Although rectal temperature is reliable, its measurement requires manual handling and causes stress to animals. IRT provides a non-contact alternative but often ignores bilateral eye temperature...

Enhancing Sheep Vitality Through Diverse Pastures and Seaweed-Based Bio-Stimulants: Effects on Performance, Health, and Product Quality

17/08/2025 - This on-farm study explored the effects of diverse pasture systems and seaweed-based bio-stimulants (AgriSea NZ Seaweed Products, Paeroa, New Zealand) on sheep performance, metabolic health, milk...

Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of Nine Local Sheep Populations Bred in the Carpathia Area of Central Europe Revealed by Microsatellite Analysis

15/08/2025 - A necessary step towards the development of genetic diversity is the protection of the valuable genetic resources of farm animals that are at risk of extinction. We analyzed 375 individuals of nine...

Toxicological Risk Assessment and Source Identification of Groundwater Pollution: A Case of Sheep Herd Damage in a Pastoral Area

14/07/2025 - Improper emissions from industrial activities pose toxicological risks to groundwater safety. Based on an environmental forensic identification case involving livestock (sheep) damage caused by...

Key Influencing Factors in the Variation in Livestock Carbon Emissions in the Grassland Region of Gannan Prefecture, China (2009&ndash;2024)

17/06/2025 - Research was conducted in Gannan Prefecture, China, to better understand the characteristics of carbon emissions and sequestration in areas dominated by animal husbandry. The emission factor method...

124 Breeds, breeding practices, and health management of sheep flocks in Arkansas, USA

17/06/2025 - The sheep industry is growing in Arkansas. The inventory has increased by 9% annually in the last five years. However, information about production systems is scarce. An online survey was conducted...

Determinants of sheep husbandry practice: the case of Mihur Aklil District, Gurage Zone, SNNPR, Ethiopia

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Impact of Lead Pollution from Vehicular Traffic on Highway-Side Grazing Areas: Challenges and Mitigation Policies

19/02/2025 - One major environmental concern is the lead (Pb) pollution from automobile traffic, especially in highway-side grazing areas. Sheep grazing in Pb-contaminated areas are particularly vulnerable...

Lightweight Small-Tailed Han Sheep Facial Recognition Based on Improved SSD Algorithm

13/03/2024 - We propose a lightweight detection algorithm based on the Single Shot MultiBox Detector (SSD) algorithm in order to facilitate sheep management and to realize sheep facial identification, and we take...