This year's drought has made hay for cattle relatively scarce and expensive.
Although the rhinos in Ujung Kulon have no natural predators, they have to compete for scarce resources with wild cattle, which may keep their numbers below the peninsula's carrying capacity.
Also, attempts to evaluate diagnostic tests for BTB in naturally infected cattle are scarce and mostly complicated by the absence of knowledge of the true disease status of the tested animals.
Reports on the accuracy of DGV for beef cattle are scarce.
Moreover, even more information of the use of cocktails with M. bovis antigens in naturally infected cattle remains scarce.
However, as information about these mechanisms in cattle is scarce, data from other species are commonly extrapolated.
To date, detailed data on ULF composition in cattle are scarce, although some studies have detected the protein products of a small number of genes encoding for secreted proteins in the ULF including IGFBP1 [ 27], retinol binding protein [ 33, 34], legumain and TIMP2 [ 35].
Ranchers are straining to find hay — it is scarce and expensive — to feed cattle.
When her father objected, the Mai-Mai slit his throat.In Kivu, cattle are now scarce, yet livestock prices have plummeted.
This ecosystem can be described as a regular coppice, about 60 80 years old, with a relatively high tree density (820 trunks per ha−1), scarce productivity, and with intermittent cattle grazing, mostly during late spring and summer.
