Flock size
Effect of sex, temperature, time and flock size on the diving behavior of the wintering Scaly-sided Merganser (Mergus squamatus)
... in flock size. Conclusions: Sex, temperature, time and flock size have an effect on the diving behavior of the wintering Scaly- sided ...various flock sizes may be caused by rising ...
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Health and Welfare in Dutch Organic Laying Hens
... flock size was 1,840 (80–5,400), the mean mortality was ...when flock sizes were much smaller and there was no common European organic poultry keeping ...
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Tūhoe Tuawhenua mātauranga of kererū (Hemiphaga novaseelandiae novaseelandiae) in Te Urewera
... A decrease in catch per unit effort (CPUE) was a secondary indicator used by interviewees to track the kererū abundance. However, it was not until the early 1970s that interviewees became growingly concerned about the ...
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Management practices and challenges in smallholder indigenous chicken production in Western Kenya
... smaller flock size hardly real- izes improved productivity, which could be explained by the manner in which they selectively adopt or refuse to adopt disseminated management interventions package, ...
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Variation of serum selenium concentrations in German sheep flocks and implications for herd health management consultancy
... Results: Pools of five samples correlated well with the mean of individually analysed samples. The intra-group range of serum Se concentration varied enormously (mean 45.4 ± 18.8 μ g Se/l). About 60% of the flocks showed ...
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Serological study of small ruminant lentiviruses in sheep population of Khorasan-e-Razavi province in Iran
... Maedi-Visna (MV) virus and caprine arthritis encephalitis (CAE) virus known as small ruminant lentiviruses (SRLVs) cause chronic diseases in susceptible animals. The main reservoirs of these viral agents are sheep and ...
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Factors Affecting Arab Goat Flock Dynamics in Western Lowlands of Ethiopia
... in flock dynamics and manage- ment in smallholder production is scarce, making it difficult to assess the effi- ciency of the contribution of smallholder goat production to its keepers and to the economy of the ...
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Prevalence of Coxiella burnetii in clinically healthy German sheep flocks
... studies identified C. burnetii in 9% of tested sheep flocks in northern Spain [21] and in 18.6% of farms with small ruminants in southern Italy [22]. Two further studies on samples obtained from either ovine abortions in ...
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Past, present and future of pastoralism in Greece
... all flock size, sheep and/or goat heads per holding, milk per adult female in flock, fecundity and the share of grazing to meet energy requirements of the sheep and goats (see Table ...
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Movement, habitat requirements, nesting and foraging site selection: a case study of an endangered granivorous bird, the Black-throated finch Poephila cincta cincta in north-eastern Australia
... knowledge of key environmental requirements of those animals is paramount for the development of conservation and management actions. This study aimed to understand the requirements of the Black- throated finch southern ...
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Aerial Photography and Statistical Analysis for Studying Behaviour Patterns of Grazing Animals.
... Of the behaviour character- istics studied, flock size and index of spread can be justified biologically; that of number of sheep per cell is more difficult.. Th[r] ...
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Neospora caninum infection as a cause of reproductive failure in a sheep flock
... Neospora caninum has been detected only sporadically in cases of ovine abortion, and it has therefore traditionally been considered as an unimportant parasite in small ruminants. This study was carried out with the aim ...
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Flock together : an analysis of starling swarm intelligence in the StarDisplay model
... Flocks of starlings have been known to show intricate aerial displays called murmur- ings. For a long time, the cause of this behavior has been subject of research.[2, 5] Even telepathy has been attributed to the animals ...
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Induction and Maintenance of Autonomous Flock House Virus RNA1 Replication
... nodavirus flock house virus (FHV) has a bipartite, positive-sense, RNA genome that encodes the catalytic subunit of the RNA replicase and the viral capsid protein precursor on separate genomic segments (RNA1 and ...
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Role of Mitochondrial Membrane Spherules in Flock House Virus Replication
... production. Flock House virus (FHV) is an attractive model for the study of these processes since it is well characterized and infects Drosophila cells, which are known to have a highly effective RNA silencing ...
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An Improved Base Algorithm for Online Discovery of Flock Patterns in Trajectories
... as flock pattern [Benkert et ...A flock is defined by a set of minimum number of objects that are spatially “close together” for a time ...on flock pattern focus on discovering maximal length (or ...
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The Effect of Phytase Enzyme on the Performance of Broiler Flock (A-Review)
... Microbial phytase is used as an alternative of this, which has beneficial effects on the growth performance, feed efficiency, protein/amino acid digestibility, energy [r] ...
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How Many Bits Can a Flock of Birds Compute?
... Recall that a 0 , a 1 , etc., constitute the left spine of the merge tree T . By (2.14), the upper and lower bounds above fall between 0.58 and 1, so satisfying them implies the integrity of the flocks along the spine: ...
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The ecology and conservation of the Flock Bronzewing Pigeon : Phaps histrionica
... The genus Pterocles was named from the Latin pteron or wing for the long, pointed wings possessed by members of the genus. This wing structure is designed for flight at high cruising speeds and is characteristic of birds ...
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Effect of Antibiotic and Prebiotic On Immunity and Reproductivity of Broiler Breeder Flock
... poultry flock by triggering or boosting the bird’s immune system to produce antibodies that in turn fight the invading causal organisms using live and inactivated vaccine against usage of ...
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