Sentences with phrase «ruminants like sheep»

Small ruminants like sheep and goats are especially vulnerable to the effects of intestinal parasites, because the worm burden increases quickly on the close - grazed pastures on which these animals are raised.

Small ruminants like sheep, goats and camelids round out our large animal practice.

Not exact matches

Pound for pound, insect farming emits 1 per cent of the greenhouse gases that raising ruminants like cows and sheep does — and it requires far less water.

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.

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

Ruminant animals like cows and sheep convert K1 into K2 in their stomachs, but humans don't convert K1 to K2 as efficiently.

However, trans fats are also naturally present in smaller amounts in body or milk fat from ruminant animals like cows, sheep and goats.

Both products work by killing or stifling the «bad» bacteria that compete with cows for food by lingering in their guts — as well as those of other four - stomached animals like sheep and goats (all called ruminants).

Indeed, according to the EPA, so - called «enteric fermentation» in cows and other ruminant animals, like sheep and goats, contributed 26 percent of the country's total emissions of methane, a hard - hitting greenhouse gas with much greater short term warming consequences than carbon dioxide does (though the latter packs a far greater long - term punch).