Sentences with phrase «by ruminant»

The basis of this system was grass, consumed by ruminant animals who turned it into milk.

Methane is a by - product of digestion of grass and other plant matter by ruminants.

The emission of methane by ruminants is probably not affected by organic production.

Use of exogenous fibrolytic enzymes to improve feed utilization by ruminants.

The miraculous conversion process, achieved only by ruminants, that takes grass — nature's most nutritious vegetable but undigestible for humans — and converts it into metabolically available, exponentially superior nutrition for people.

During the age of the mega-fauna, vast expanses of land were artificially maintained as open parkland by the ruminants and other grazers.

Agricultural methane is released primarily by ruminants such as cattle, and during rice production.

Methane doesn't just emerge from leaks from oil and gas operations — it is also belched by ruminants (i.e., cows) and emerges from wetlands, landfills and much more.

Not exact matches

We've taken an animal that is a ruminant or grazer and acidified its intestinal system by forcing it to eat corn.

For the parasite monitoring programme run by the Swiss small ruminant advisory and health service (Schweizerischer Beratungs - und Gesundheitsdienst für Kleinwiederkäuer, BGK), we examine approximately 7000 faecal samples from sheep, goats, deer and South American camelids annually.

We focus on ruminant livestock since it has the highest emissions intensity across food sectors... While shifting consumption patterns in wealthy countries from imported to domestic livestock products reduces GHG emissions associated with international trade and transport activity, we find that these transport emissions reductions are swamped by changes in global emissions due to differences in GHG emissions intensities of production.

Because of the necessity of removing the corpses of ruminants from farming, «vultures have been faced with a scarcity of food, which has caused them to make changes in their diet by consuming a higher quantity of hunting species,» the researcher explains.

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.

The introduction of this oilseed preparation into the diet of ruminants also improves efficiency in the use of digestible organic matter by between 4.4 % and 10.1 % and cuts the fermentation of the diet by between 6.2 % and 11.8 %, without adversely affecting its digestibility for this reason.

The introduction of rapeseed - based animal feed into the diet of ruminants improves efficiency in the use of digestible organic matter by between 4.4 % and 10.1 % and cuts the fermentation of the diet by between 6.2 % and 11.8 %, without adversely affecting its digestibility for this reason.

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.

Food production accounts for a third of all greenhouse gas emissions when one tallies those from fossil fuels used in growing, preparing and transporting food; the carbon dioxide released by clearing land for farming and pastures; the methane from rice paddies and ruminant livestock; and the nitrous oxide from fertilizer use.

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.

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.

[Evert C. Duin et al: Mode of action uncovered for the specific reduction of methane emissions from ruminants by the small molecule 3 - nitrooxypropanol]

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.

I conducted investigations of the beautiful patterning worn by many species of cat and snake, the countershaded coats of ruminants and the camouflage of moths.

Heartwater, a tick - borne disease of domestic and wild ruminants, is caused by the intracellular rickettsia Ehrlichia ruminantium (previously known as Cowdria ruminantium).

The invasion of the endometrium by fetal tissue is very limited in ruminants, resulting in a synepitheliochorial structure of the placenta (39).

The impact of ruminants goes beyond manure; by improving soil quality and aeration, these animals regenerate and heal landscapes.

They are primarily produced by bacteria in animals with ruminant stomachs, like cows, goats, and sheep.

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.

While grass - fed meat from ruminant animals is certainly a healthy «Paleo food,» it by no means constitutes the majority of a typical Paleo diet.

Journal of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Health Mechanism of retained placenta and its treatment by plant medicine in ruminant animals in Oromia, Ethiopia

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.)

And if the state of the «global environment» were of significant concern, then we'd be asking ourselves how to get ruminants back onto the vast tracts of land that we've removed them from — land that has been pillaged by plows and chemicals.

A lot of people simply do not realize most animal species evolved to get most of their caloric energy needs from fat, even ruminants actually receive their nutrition and calories from the fatty acids generated by the bacteria in their rumen consuming the plant matter.

Instead of a group of candle wax makers creating trans - fats in industrial vats by hydrogenating cottonseed oil into disgusting, technically edible faux - butter, the special digestive systems of grass - fed ruminants produce CLA internally.

By itself, liver from land animals, especially ruminants like cattle and lamb, is very rich in vitamin A, 64 while livers from both ruminants and poultry animals have only about 12 IU of vitamin D for every 100 grams.65

«There are 2 predominant sources of dietary trans fatty acids (TFA) in the food supply, those formed during the industrial partial hydrogenation of vegetable oils (iTFA) and those formed by biohydrogenation 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.

However, keep in mind that the quantity of healthy trans fats in the meat and dairy of ruminant animals is greatly reduced by mass - production methods of farming and their grain and soy heavy diets.

At the top of the list is fish oil, followed by n - 3 eggs, grass - fed butter, and the fat of grass - fed ruminants.

We also balance omega - 3 and -6 fats by adding flax seed oil to the duck meal and hemp seed oil to ruminant meals.

Food Safety Neogen's Food Safety Division consists primarily of diagnostic test kits and complementary products (e.g., dehydrated culture media) sold to food producers and processors to detect dangerous and / or unintended substances in human food and animal feed, such as foodborne pathogens, spoilage organisms, natural toxins, food allergens, genetic modifications, ruminant by - products, meat speciation, drug residues, pesticide residues and general sanitation concerns.

Charlottetown, PEI - The Canadian Veterinary Medical Association's (CVMA) annual Convention takes place in Charlottetown, and offers veterinary professionals from across Canada continuing education sessions that focus on companion animal, ruminant, equine, practice management, bovine, animal welfare, and small flock poultry and more delivered by over 40 highly - rated speakers from Canada, the United States and overseas.

The Canadian Veterinary Medical Association's (CVMA) annual Convention takes place in Charlottetown, and offers veterinary professionals from across Canada continuing education sessions that focus on companion animal, ruminant, equine, practice management, bovine, animal welfare, and small flock poultry and more delivered by over 40 highly - rated speakers from Canada, the United States and overseas.

This is a complex topic, made more difficult by the high variability in calcium and phosphorus content in typical ruminant bones (table 2).

The Council states that eating less meat from ruminant animals (such as cattle and lamb) could reduce greenhouse gas emissions from food in Denmark by 20 to 35 percent.

One should also pay attention to other greenhouse gases, particularly methane (from rice paddies, ruminant animal digestive processes, industrial processes, and distributed natural sources, some of which could be triggered to large releases by warming) and nitrous oxide (from the nitrogen cycle linking the atmosphere, plants, and bacteria, now exacerbated by extremely heavy use of nitrogenous fertilizers in agriculture; note, as does Vaclav Smil from the University of Manitoba, that fertilizer use is required to feed half the world's current population.

According to MAF, 98.7 % of agricultural methane comes from ruminant enteric fermentation, released by burping; and is part of...

... As for possible routes of introduction of the virus, they mention BTV - positive ruminants imported either legally or illegally, virus - carrying midges transported by wind over hundreds of kilometers, accidental importation by ship or aircraft, contaminated vaccines and trade with the products of infected animals... Kampen and Werner conclude that «it is due to continuing globalization rather than to climate change that even central and northern Europe are at risk of new pathogens as well as vectors of disease entering and establishing.»»

In particular, if focuses on the following areas: reducing methane emissions from ruminant animals by modification of plant composition; reducing nitrous oxide emissions by making the use of nitrogen more efficient both in terms of going from soil to plant and in the animal; enhancing carbon sequestration through plant breeding; reducing emissions from fertiliser production.

There is a claim, promoted especially by some in the farm sector, that because methane is short - lived, and because methane levels plateaued for a short time while ruminant numbers continued to increase, efforts to reduce emissions from enteric fermentation are therefore worthless or near worthless.