Sentence examples for keeping ruminants from inspiring English sources
Methane was perceived by the farmers interviewed as "an inevitable consequence of keeping ruminants" (interview 87, sheep breeder).
Before 2007, the seroprevalence of C. burnetii antibodies within the general population of the Netherlands was 2.4%; keeping ruminants and increasing age were risk factors for seropositivity (2 ).
Women's main source of income was the sale of milk and other dairy products, although a few engaged in trade (petty trade of food items, keeping small ruminants).
All households owned livestock other than cattle, with most of them keeping small ruminants and chickens for household consumption and/or sale and dogs for hunting and/or security.
Tschopp et al. showed also that keeping small ruminants with cattle herds was associated with higher numbers of positive BTB reactors in cattle [ 13].
Multiple livestock species herding, keeping of small ruminants along with cattle or camels, has been reported as risk factor for seropositivity to Brucella infections [ 17, 18].
Free-moving stables with permanent access to open-air runs are the principle of ruminant keeping.
U.S. safeguards include a ban on using ruminant parts in cattle feed and keeping spinal cords, brains and nervous tissue, the items most at risk of infection, out of the food supply.
Livestock composition varies from keeping cattle as dominant stock with variable number of small ruminants in crop-livestock mixed farming systems to a camel, cattle and small ruminant composition in pastoral areas.
Small ruminants such as sheep and goats predominated in Kano, while the proportion of households keeping cattle was significantly higher in Bobo Dioulasso than in Sikasso and Kano.
