(n.) The young of any animal of the Horse family (Equidae); a colt; a filly.
(v.t.) To bring forth (a colt); -- said of a mare or a she ass.
(v.i.) To bring forth young, as an animal of the horse kind.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was, however, no difference in the overall elimination rate constant between foals and mares.
(2) Follow-up evaluation for all foals was completed at various times after physiologic closure of the physes.
(3) However, when hypoxia occurred during colic surgery in the last 60 days of pregnancy, the mares either aborted or delivered severely compromised foals that did not survive.
(4) Eighteen live foals resulted, of which 11 appeared abnormal on the basis of behaviour.
(5) Although the beginnings and endings of these periods are not definitive, these periods may be conceptually useful in evaluating a foal's behavior.
(6) The information presented here will be useful in the diagnosis and management of renal disease and azotaemia in foals.
(7) Evaluation of immunoglobulin levels in 24 hour post suckle samples would prove of value not only in diagnosing CID foals, but in recognising FPT in otherwise normal foals.
(8) Information about the resulting foals was obtained and correlations examined.
(9) No evidence was found to support the hypothesis that the normal, term neonatal foal actively maintains EEV greater than Vrx.
(10) A study of gonadotrophin production in horses and donkeys bearing hybrid foals has yielded fascinating results about the immunology of pregnancy.
(11) The disease in foals has been recognised in America since 1973.
(12) Each sire family consisted of a sire, his foals, and the dams of those foals.
(13) In 5 of these foals, strain gauges also were applied to the radius of the left forelimb.
(14) Esophageal stenosis was diagnosed in a 7-day-old Thoroughbred foal referred for evaluation of bilateral milky nasal discharge.
(15) The potential association of mare- and foal-related factors with FPT were assessed by reviewing a series of multiple logistic regression models.
(16) All seven premature foals survived, whereas four of the seven full term foals died.
(17) The foal with acute disease had distinct green-tan focal necrosis and thickened mucosa of the large intestine.
(18) The foals and yearlings were allowed to graze on open pasture throughout the experiment to provide a natural source for bot and helminth infections.
(19) Removal of the fixation appliances 16 weeks after implantation in three foals from each of groups I and II failed to reverse the degree of ulnar dysplasia.
(20) Significant age-related changes were observed in values for the major kinetic terms describing the disposition of chloramphenicol in foals; the greatest changes were observed between 1 day and 3 days of age.
Yearling
Definition:
(n.) An animal one year old, or in the second year of its age; -- applied chiefly to cattle, sheep, and horses.
(a.) Being a year old.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sires of the cows had been divergently selected on yearling weight (YW) and total maternal (MAT) EPD to form four groups: high YW, high MAT EPD; high YW, low MAT EPD; low YW, high MAT EPD; and low YW, low MAT EPD.
(2) A yearling Quarter Horse colt was examined because of intermittent esophageal obstruction.
(3) Three age groups were used: stall fed yearlings, grazing heifers and lactating cows.
(4) Healthy yearling beef and dairy cattle were inoculated with a vaccine containing modified-live bovine respiratory syncytial virus (ML-BRSV), and sequential changes in clinical signs of disease, blood leukocyte subsets, BRSV-specific antibody titer, and in vitro lymphocyte blastogenic responses were monitored.
(5) In comparison with the parent, RKAW5 exhibited a significant decrease in adherence to human buccal epithelial cells and in nasal colonization of yearling rhesus monkeys.
(6) The foals and yearlings were allowed to graze on open pasture throughout the experiment to provide a natural source for bot and helminth infections.
(7) Under the conditions of this investigation, age and acquired resistance to Ostertagia ostertagi were not demonstrated, since previously non-exposed calves and yearlings and previously infected yearlings had comparable worm burdens.
(8) At the time of spring turnout, a bolus was administered to each calf or yearling in the treated group.
(9) The pharmacokinetic properties of a long-acting formulation of chloramphenicol were determined in six yearling cattle after a single intravenous (i.v.)
(10) Yearling feeder steers (n = 324) representing nine frame size (Large, Medium, Small) x muscle thickness (No.
(11) The effect of adult thymectomy on the thoracic duct lymphocyte population of yearling calves has been investigated.
(12) Photosensitive, yearling Large White turkey breeder hens underwent pinealectomy (PX) or bilateral ocular enucleation (EX) or both while held on 8 hr of light per day (8L:16D) and were then photoinduced into a typical 20-week egg laying period by exposing the birds to 16 hr of light per day (16L:8D).
(13) However, annual mean EPG and larvae per gram of feces counts of mares and yearlings tended to increase over time, and for the yearlings treated with TBZ + PPZ and PTZ + PPZ-CS2, the buildup of these mean counts was statistically significant (P less than 0.05 for regression coefficients).
(14) pastures with neither energy nor protein feed supplementation at stocking rates of 6.7, 8.0, 9.5 and 12.4 yearlings per hectare.
(15) Examination of sera from yearling animals and sentinels in the region for antibody to the range of serotypes of BTV recognized worldwide, has resulted in a) the isolation of BTV type 2 from cattle in Florida - the 1st time this virus has been identified in the Western Hemisphere - and b) the recognition that the range of serotypes of BTV present in the Caribbean may be different from those in the USA.
(16) When observed as yearlings and 2-year-olds, juveniles who had had more protective early mothering showed less interest in the external environment, as measured by the percentage of time they spent looking outside the home enclosure.
(17) Metabolic changes were studied in the serum, saliva and peritoneal fluid of 5 healthy yearling feedlot steers after experimentally induced urinary bladder rupture.
(18) On serological grounds there appears to be little advantage in using the reduced dose vaccine in yearling heifers as opposed to the standard dose vaccination of 5 to 7 month old heifers.
(19) Two digestion trials were conducted with seven crossbred, abomasally cannulated yearling steers (400 kg) to study the effect of level of feed intake on the site and extent of feed and microbial protein digestion.
(20) Responses of yearling steers grazing a mixture of three tropical legumes with bahiagrass (Paspalum notatum Flugge) were evaluated at three stocking rates under continuous grazing.