Browsing Veterinary Science by Subject "East African short-horn zebus"

Browsing Veterinary Science by Subject "East African short-horn zebus"

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  • A live weight–heart girth relationship for accurate dosing of east African shorthorn zebu cattle 
    Lesosky, Maia; Dumas, Sarah; Conradie, Ilana; Handel, Ian Graham; Jennings, Amy; Thumbi, Samuel Mwangi; Toye, Philip G.; Bronsvoort, Barend Mark de Clare (Springer, 2013)
    The accurate estimation of livestock weights is important for many aspects of livestock management including nutrition, production and appropriate dosing of pharmaceuticals. Subtherapeutic dosing has been shown to ...
  • Variation and covariation in strongyle infection in East African shorthorn zebu calves 
    Callaby, R.; Hanotte, Olivier; Conradie van Wyk, Ilana; Kiara, Henry; Toye, Philip G.; Mbole-Kariuki, Mary Ndila; Jennings, Amy; Thumbi, Samuel Mwangi; Coetzer, Jacobus A.W.; Bronsvoort, Barend Mark de Clare; Knott, S.A.; Woolhouse, Mark E.J.; Kruuk, Loeske E.B. (Cambridge University Press, 2015-03)
    Parasite burden varies widely between individuals within a population, and can covary with multiple aspects of individual phenotype. Here we investigate the sources of variation in faecal strongyle eggs counts, and its ...