Sentences with phrase «as ruminant»

ungulate a hoofed typically herbivorous quadruped mammal (as a ruminant, swine, camel, hippopotamus, horse, tapir, rhinoceros, elephant, or hyrax)
Additional time for 2 - 3 elective rotations will be available to participate in services such as ruminant medicine, equine theriogenology, anesthesia, radiology, pathology, and ophthalmology.
However, if one rotates poultry and ruminant foods, in most cases, the overall amount of copper will be within standards, as long as some ruminant liver is used.
Interestingly, some trans fats are actually naturally occurring, and known as ruminant trans fats.
The researchers looked at domestic and international trade of corn, rice, soy and wheat, along with such livestock products as ruminant (animals like cattle, goats and sheep that subsist on plant matter), pork and poultry.
Deer (Cervidae) inhabit nearly all continents, and as ruminant artiodactyls they are closely related to our modern species of domesticated livestock.
Animals with four - chambered stomachs that process plants are known as ruminants.
Human anatomy is simply not designed to digest too much cellulose, the way plant - focused animals are, animals such as ruminants (cows, goats, etc.) and gorillas.

Not exact matches

One widely cited study from 1995 estimated that ruminant animals (such as cows, sheep, and deer) can produce between 250 to 500 liters of methane a day because of how their digestive system works.
As the worst environmental impacts come from farming ruminants such as cattle and sheep, the scientists also recommend a shift towards «mostly plant - based foods.&raquAs the worst environmental impacts come from farming ruminants such as cattle and sheep, the scientists also recommend a shift towards «mostly plant - based foods.&raquas cattle and sheep, the scientists also recommend a shift towards «mostly plant - based foods.»
The livestock methane research includes development of algae - based functional foods for reducing intestinal methane emissions from ruminants (such as cattle, sheep, goats and deer).
Ruminant animals (such as cows and sheep) and infant monogastrics (such as baby pigs and chickens) also have nitrate - converting bacteria in their digestive systems.
White Oak Pastures has officially opened up a new intern / apprenticeship program that shows accepted applicants every aspect of life on a farm — from building fences to raising healthy cattle and small ruminants, as well as administrative duties like -LSB-...]
«As we are talking, we took in over 800 small ruminant (goats) today from Burkina Faso which will all be patronised in two or three days.
Anne Zajac, an associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology at the Virginia - Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine in Blacksburg, Virginia, does research on gastrointestinal parasites found in small ruminants such as sheep and goats.
The giraffids, a family of ruminants that includes modern day giraffes and okapis, are thought to have existed as far back as the early Miocene epoch.
Industry scientists say bovine growth hormone can by reducing the number of greenhouse gas — emitting cows as it increases the remaining ruminants» output
Bluetongue virus, a ruminant virus spread by midges that was once confined to tropical areas, has reached as far as Norway.
BSE emerged as a result of what originally looked like an ingenious use of beef by - products: feeding processed ground cow to ruminants, which are herbivores, not carnivores.
Begun says it appears to belong to a ruminant — a hoofed, cud - chewing mammal such as a deer.
Methane comes naturally from decomposition of plant and animal matter, and from man - made sources including the farming of ruminants such as cattle and sheep, and coal or natural gas extraction.
On 21 August, the European Union announced a series of measures to contain it, including an export ban on ruminantsas well as their semen, ova, and embryos — in a 150 - kilometer radius around stricken areas.
At least 45 farms in the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium have so far been affected by bluetongue disease, which infects ruminants such as cows, sheep, goats, and deer.
They merely serve as markers of dairy intake since their sole source is ruminant animals, such as cows.
When ruminants digest their feed, methane is formed as a natural by - product of the microbial process in the rumen, and since methane is a 25 times more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, there is a need to devise methods to reduce such emissions from cattle.
The natural reservoir of EHEC bacteria are ruminants such as cows and sheep, which carry the pathogens in their guts and spread them with their feces.
Potent greenhouse gases, such as nitrogen oxides produced by denitrifying bacteria in overfertilized Chinese farming lands or methane released by archaea in the millions of ruminant animals in Australia and New Zealand, may have contributed substantially to global warming.
VIM carries out virology and immunology research using large animals such as pigs (influenza) and ruminants (RSV).
He said he plans to look for MNLPs in other ruminant species, such as sheep and deer, to try to determine whether the sequences he's found so far are related via a common ancestor sequence.
Heartwater, a tick - borne disease of domestic and wild ruminants, is caused by the intracellular rickettsia Ehrlichia ruminantium (previously known as Cowdria ruminantium).
Let's consider further the diet of the goat and other ruminants, such as cows and sheep: they're able to obtain all their nutrition by grazing on grasses and other forage.
Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) is a type of PUFA that is found naturally in milk and meat products, primarily from ruminants such as cows or sheep.
In addition to raw liver, I prepare the shakes with fermented vegetables like sauerkraut or kimchi (to simulate ruminant intestinal contents, which were also savored by traditional hunters) as well as kefir (unclear whether fermented milk was regularly consumed by hunters, but is nonetheless useful as a supplemental probiotic.)
Unlike the gut of a gorilla or a ruminant such as a cow, the human gut is simply not large enough to turn vegetable matters into fatty acids at an adequate rate for ideal metabolic and nervous system health.
I've talked about this type of meat before and how it's one of the healthiest forms of meat you can possibly eat... It's grass - fed beef and other grass - fed ruminant meats such as bison, buffalo, lamb, and venison.
A ruminant animal has 4 stomachs; cows, sheep, goats, etc., and as such can digest grass.
When ruminants are raised on fresh pasture alone, their milk and meat contain as much as five times more CLA than products from animals fed conventional diets.
Ruminant animals like cows and sheep convert K1 into K2 in their stomachs, but humans don't convert K1 to K2 as efficiently.
Also, organic dairy products have usually come from cows that have been grass - fed (as opposed to GMO - grains, which is not natural for these big ruminants).
Animal foods can easily be whole food, whole fat, as in the solid fat pads found in ruminants.
That would be important because some experiments carried out on rats and mice are completely irrelevant to humans because of the significant physiological differences as the article above refers to: «Ruminant animals such as cows, sheep and goats have no trouble with phytic acid because phytase is produced by rumen microorganisms; monogastric animals also produce phytase, although far less.
The question of whether these marine trans fatty acids have health benefits — as do the natural trans fats found in the fat of ruminant animals — awaits further research.
Meal used as a livestock feed, primarily for ruminants.
Natural trans fats are created in the stomachs of ruminant animals such as cattle, sheep, goats, etc. and make their way into the fat stores of the animals.
For maximum health, buy raw, organic, butter made from the milk of grass - fed ruminants, such as cows, sheep and goats.
I've enjoyed a long career in animal nutrition — first with Purina and later with Moorman's — throughout which I have been committed to producing outstanding nutritional products for a variety of species, including swine and ruminant animals, as well as family pets including dogs, cats and horses.
Some of the ingredients listed include: hydrolysed hair, dehydrated garbage and even manure, swine waste, ruminant waste, poultry waste, and what is described as «undried processed animal waste products».
She has a special interest in the breeding bull, infectious diseases such as Tritrichomonas foetus and Anaplasma marginale, neonatology of the ruminant, as well as musculoskeletal and lameness issues that affect the bull and cow.
Transferring microbial material from healthy to sick ruminants, such as cattle, is a long - established veterinary practice, but fecal microbial transplantation, or FMT, is so new to veterinary medicine that much remains unknown.
While we see mostly dogs and cats, we enjoy caring for other critters as well, everything from geckos to ferrets to rabbits as well as barnyard pets including small ruminants and fowl.
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