The phrase "a mixed herd" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a group of animals, particularly livestock, that consists of different species or breeds.
Example: "The farmer decided to keep a mixed herd of sheep and goats to maximize the use of his pasture."
Alternatives: "a diverse group of animals" or "a varied livestock collection".
I am not at all ashamed to confess that several times I have sat in my office at the end of the day, perched high atop a ridge overlooking a mixed herd of Herefords and Black Angus, opened a bottle of wine, moved my Moots into view, up close and intimate, and spent some very high quality time admiring the object of my affections.
In this study, we develop a modeling approach to quantify both engineering resilience (return time after a perturbation) and ecological resilience (magnitude of a perturbation that a system can bear) of a mixed herd livestock farming system in Mongolian steppes.
Further, this study identified the main adaptation strategies employed by the herders of this region (i.e., purchasing fodder; rotational grazing; raising a mixed-herd, on-farm occupation; and postharvest grazing).
The dairy herds included three Red Holstein herds, three Holstein Friesian herds, one Jersey herd, one mixed herd with Red Holstein and Swiss Fleckvieh, one mixed herd with Holstein Friesian and Brown Swiss, and one Brown Swiss herd with some Jerseys.
In Southern Africa, most males are only territorial for a few weeks during the time of the annual rut (i.e. in April) and generally associate with females in mixed herd throughout most of the year [ 48].
The KGR is an agro-pastoral mixed herding and cultivation system.
We also analyzed samples from fetuses of these species obtained in April 2013 (Table), as well as animals from 8 cow herds and 4 sheep goat mixed herds; a mean of 14 samples were collected per herd during 2 sampling periods (Table).
The KGR is an 'agro-pastoral' or mixed herding and cultivation system.
Goats are a reservoir for Mccp, and Mccp has been isolated from sheep in mixed herds with goats (8 ).
Thus, mixed herds in closed health and breeding pyramids represent an important barrier against infection with Y. enterocolitica O 3/biovar 4. Reduction in prevalence of human pathogenic Y. enterocolitica at the top levels of the health and breeding pyramids may also reduce the prevalence of Y. enterocolitica O 3/biovar 4 in the general pig population.
On the basis of details recorded in the RBCT database, farms were categorized into one of three enterprise types: beef, dairy and other (a composite category including calf rearers, dealers, exempt finishing units, heifer rearers, house cows, mixed herds and stores).
