Maintaining sheep flock health: an overview
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Maintaining sheep flock health: an overview

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Maintaining sheep flock health: an overview

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Improving the efficiency of livestock production is a fundamental challenge facing humanity, and maintaining the health of livestock is key to ensuring this. Systems for farming small ruminants such as sheep must meet the global need for food security while being economically, environmentally and socially sustainable. Nowadays, sustainable agriculture is threatened by a global reduction in land resources and water and hitherto irresponsible use of drugs and chemicals. This chapter describes efficient small ruminant livestock production, examining its ecological impact and the effects of advances in genetic improvement and other technologies. The chapter describes how managing the health of sheep flocks through health planning, nutritional management and ensuring biodiversity can ensure efficient production, and includes case studies addressing lamb growth rates and controlling parasitic infections. The chapter concludes that effective biosecurity, good nutrition, protection from infectious pathogens and endemic disease management in sheep flocks are essential for global food security.

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Publisher
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing
Year
2017
ISBN
9781838792671
Topic
Technology & Engineering
Subtopic
Sustainable Agriculture
Index
Technology & Engineering

Table of contents

  1. 1 Introduction
  2. 2 The global role of farming small ruminants
  3. 3 Efficiency of global ruminant livestock production
  4. 4 Ecological impact of small ruminants
  5. 5 Genetic improvement of sheep and technological advances
  6. 6 Improving small ruminant production efficiency through ani
  7. 7 Sheep health management
  8. 8 Sheep flock health planning
  9. 9 Sheep nutritional management
  10. 10 Biosecurity of individual sheep flocks
  11. 11 Case study: applying principles of sheep flock health planning to lamb growth rates
  12. 12 Case study: parasitic nematode control in sheep as a globally important health management challenge
  13. 13 Summary
  14. 14 Where to look for further information
  15. 15 References