Free communications sheep and goat production

Date: 06 June ‘05; 14:00 - 18:00 hours
Chairperson: Gabiña (ES)

Theatre

• Selection for lean weight based on CT and ultrasound in a meat line of sheep (Kvame, T. and O. Vangen)

• Changes in, and relationships among, lamb growth and carcass traits measured by Computer tomography (CT) (Lambe, N.R., E.A. Navajas, K.A. McLean, L. Bünger and G. Simm)

• Using X-ray computed tomography to predict intramuscular fat content in sheep (Macfarlane, J.M., M.J. Young, R.M. Lewis, G.C. Emmans and G. Simm)

• Genetic parameters for birth weight, growth and litter size for Danish Texel and Shropshire (Maxa, J., E. Norberg, P. Berg and J. Pedersen)

• Effect of birth type on milk production traits in East Friesian ewes (Fuerst-Waltl, B. and J. Sölkner and R. Baumung)

• Year-round lamb production systems on pasture: Theory and practice (Morel, P.C.H., S.T. Morris, P.R. Kenyon, G. de Nicolo and D.M. West)

• Evaluation of in-farm versus weather station data as heat stress indicator in Mediterranean dairy sheep (Finocchiaro, R., A. Di Grigoli, J.B.C.H.M. van Kaam, A. Bonanno and B. Portolano)

• Flight test as detector of transport stress in sheep (Diverio, S., A. Barone, G. Tami and N. Falocci)

• Body posture and orientation in sheep during transportation (Diverio, S., A. Barone, G. Tami and N. Falocci)

• Low-cost feeding strategies for fattening Awassi lambs in Syria (Hartwell, B.W., L. Iniguez, M. Wurzinger and W. Knaus)

• The effect of supplemental feeding duration on performance of Balouchi ewes (Kashki, V., M.R. Kianzad, M. Raisianzadeh, M. Nowrozi, H. Tavakoli and A. Davtalabzarghi)

• Kinetics of responses of goat milk fatty acids to dietary forage:concentrate ratio and/or high doses of sunflower or linseed oil, or extruded mixture of seeds (Chilliard, Y., J. Rouel, P. Guillouet, K. Raynal-Ljutovac, L. Leloutre and A. Ferlay)

Poster

• Research regarding the morpho-productive parameters of F1 crossbreds resulted from crossing Lacaune breed with Ţigaia breed (Raducuta, I., L. Vidu and A. Marmandiu)
• Heterosis analysis of Haemonchus contortus resistance and productions traits in Rhönschaf, Merinoland sheep and crossbred lambs (Hielscher, A., M. Gauly, H. Brandt and G. Erhardt)
• Alpine network for sheep and goat promotion for a sustainable territory development (Bigaran, F., D. Kompan, C. Mendel, A. Feldmann, F. Ringdorfer, G. de Ros, S. Venerus and E. Piasentier)
• Alternative sheep breeding schemes in Norway (Eikje, L.S., L.R. Schaeffer, T. Ådnøy and G. Klemetsdal)
• Morphologic characterization and body measurement of Hungarian goats (Németh, T., A. Molnár, G. Baranyai and S. Kukovics)
• Evaluation of boer goat performances in two climatic environments (Láczó, E., P. Póti and F. Pajor)
• Effect of winter shearing during late pregancy in the Latxa dairy sheep (Ruiz, R., J. Arranz and I. Beltrán de Heredia)
• Influence of weaning age on lamb growth and animal health in Boer goats (Das, G., E. Moors and M. Gauly)
• Changes in somatic cell counts of sheep milk and their effect on rennetability and quality of rennet curdling during lactation (Zajicova, P. and J. Kuchtik)
• Breeding for scrapie resistance and controll strategie in Hungary (Nagy, B., L. Fésüs and L. Sáfár)
• Development of a generic database for sheep and goat in Germany (Müller, U., R. Fischer, F. Rikabi, R. Walther, E. Groeneveld and U. Bergfeld)
• Effect of parity and number of kids in yield and milk composition in Sarda (Vacca, G.M., V. Carcangiu, M.C. Mura, M.L. Dettori and P.P. Bini)
• Estimation of lamb carcass composition using real-time ultrasound (Pajor, F., P. Póti, E. Láczó and J. Töszér)
• Evaluation of carcass quality of different sheep breeds in performance testing (Baulain, U., W. Brade, A. Schoen and S. von Korn)
• Quality of meat from Pomeranian lambs and crossbreeds by Berrichon du Cher and Charolaise rams, stored under modified atmosphere conditions (Brzostowski, H. and Z. Tanski)
• Ram odour - does it affect Meat quality in Norwegian lambs? (Eik, L.O., J.E. Haugen, O. Sørheim and T. Ådnøy)
• Growth performance of Awassi, Charollais-Awassi and Romanov-Awassi ram and ewe lambs (Abdullah, A.Y., R.T. Kridli, A.Q. Al-Momani and M. Momani-Shaker)
• Experiences on S/EUROP meat qualification system on sheep breeds in Hungary (Molnár, A., Gy. Toldi, S. Kukovics and T. Németh)
• The effect of mannanoligosaccharide supplementation on the performance of ewes in late pregnancy and on lamb performance (Crosby, E.J., M. Fooley and S. Andrieu)
• Effect of feeding pistachio skins on performance of lactating dairy goats (Naserian, A.A. and P. Vahmani)
• The effect of roasted cereals on growth and blood parameters of lambs fattening (Antunovic, Z., M. Domacinovic, M. Speranda, B. Liker, D. Sencic and Z. Steiner)
• Influence of the diet on the productive performances of Gentile di Puglia lambs (Vicenti, A., M. Ragni, C. Cocca, L. Di Turi, F. Toteda and G. Vonghia)
• Influence of zinc-methionine supplementation on milk composition, somatic cell counts and udder health in sheep (El-Barody, M. and S. Abd El-Razek)
• Goat dairy performances according to dietary forage:concentrate ratio and/or high doses of sunflower or linseed oil, or extruded mixture of seeds (Rouel, J., E. Bruneteau, P. Guillouet, A. Ferlay, P. Gaborit, L. Leloutre and Y. Chilliard)
• Milk yield and it’s constituents of local barbary sheep in Libyan Arab Jamahirya (Azaga, I.A. and K.M. Marzouk)