(1) The building of sophisticated housing is likely to be justified for pigs, poultry, dairy cattle and calves, but not for suckler beef and sheep.
(2) Many more dairy herds were affected than beef suckler herds, a difference attributable to the difference in feeding practices between the two herd types.
(3) In a two-year study of the incidence of subclinical mastitis in two beef suckler herds over 2400 quarter milk samples from 180 cows were examined.
(4) Cryptosporidium were more common in single and multiple suckler beef herds.
(5) Rotavirus infections were more common in dairy herds and single suckler beef herds whereas Salmonella infections were more often found in calf rearing units.
(6) K99+ E coli were found in one dairy herd and one multiple suckler beef herd both with unhygienic calving accommodation.
(7) Ten cows in a suckler herd totalling 60 sickened after grazing parkland which was heavily covered with acorns.
(8) 90 days' postpartum, 35.1% of sucklers and 66.7% of milkers showed their 1st estrus.
(9) The fore-milk samples from suckler beef cows were of value in the early detection of nonpregnant cows.
(10) Sows were screened routinely and in the worst affected herds, sucklers and weaners were also swabbed.
(11) Results of fore-milk progesterone estimations from suckler beef cows using radioimmunoassay for pregnancy diagnosis and, with manual examination per rectum, the measurement of embryonic fetal mortality are reported.
(12) Average PPEI length for sucklers was significantly different from that for milkers (131.5 vs. 77.9 days, p less than .01).
(13) Results of these tests indicated that: (a) in spite of extremely dirty udders, fewer contaminants were found in the suckler cow milk samples than in a group of over 1700 samples from typical dairy herds; (b) 18 per cent of all quarter milk samples were infected; (c) 67 per cent of all infections were due to staphylococci and 20 per cent to streptococci; (d) 56 per cent of staphylococcal infections were associated with cell counts less than 500,000 per ml compared with 39 per cent of other infections; (e) 70 per cent of samples had somatic cell counts less than 500,000 per ml.
(14) The body temperature was significant higher in calves of the suckler cow herd.
(15) The ovaries of 18 post-partum beef suckler cows were examined daily, using ultrasound, from Day 5 post partum until a normal oestrous cycle was completed.
(16) The percentage of animals with postpartum ovulation interval (PPOI) of more than 3 months was 23.8% for sucklers and 9.5% for milkers.
(17) Confidence in the accuracy of the dairy ME system has been built up, and its application to suckler cows has also proved successful.
(18) Fifteen cows among a herd of 50 suckler cows and calves rapidly lost body condition and became dull and anorexic after grazing pasture containing bog asphodel (Narthecium ossifragum) during the summer of 1989.
(19) Two groups each of 10 suckler cows were given a basal diet of oat straw and pressed unmolassed sugar beet pulp for the last 19 weeks of pregnancy and the first 6 weeks of lactation.
(20) Eleven out of 36 suckler cows, all in late pregnancy, aborted seven to 10 days following introduction to a rye grass pasture heavily infested with ergot.
Suckling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suckle
(v. t.) A young child or animal nursed at the breast.
(v. t.) A small kind of yellow clover (Trifolium filiforme) common in Southern Europe.
Example Sentences:
(1) Examination of the SON in such animals revealed that the oxytocinergic system is already modified by day 12 of dioestrus; during suckling-induced lactation, the anatomical changes are identical to those seen during a normal post-partum lactation.
(2) These episodes continued for the duration of the suckling test and were enhanced when a second pup was placed on an adjacent nipple.
(3) DNA from 9% (47 of 529) of the E. coli colonies tested hybridized with the ST probe, whereas only 5% (28 of 529) produced ST as measured by the suckling mouse bioassay.
(4) A considerably greater increase in the peak plasma OT concentration resulted when hungry foster litters of 6 pups were suckled after the mothers' own 6 pups had been suckled.
(5) The results also suggest that both alkali metals most probably have been delivered to the suckling pups and some of their toxic effect was retarded.
(6) Head chef Christopher Gould (a UK Masterchef quarter-finalist) puts his own stamp on traditional Spanish fare with the likes of mushroom-and-truffle croquettes and suckling Málaga goat with couscous.
(7) Reinstitution of suckling after removal of pups causes an immediate rise in PRL and GH.
(8) Insulin, which slightly but significantly, depressed the level in 40 day old rats, increased it in suckling ones, as does prednisolone.
(9) From these results, we conclude that opiate peptides are released in response to the suckling stimulus in the cynomolgus monkey and that they mediate the effects of suckling on PRL secretion in both gonadal-intact and agonadal cynomolgus monkeys.
(10) Mechanisms are suggested whereby rudimentary appetitive programs already encoded along facing dendrite membrane pairs within the specialized intrafascicular milieu, may trigger and control nipple search and suckling in the still blind and only primitively mobile neonate.
(11) The yield and viability of isolated hepatocytes from suckling rats were 18.1 X 10(7) cells per gram liver and 95%, respectively.
(12) Lipase level per unit wet tissue and total pancreatic levels increased from 2 to 35 d of age in suckling pigs (P less than .01).
(13) The effects of undernutrition during suckling on neurochemical and behavioral parameters were investigated in adult rats.
(14) Peculiarities of the central area EEG have been exhibited in all the age groups, and it has been assumed that the central parts of the cortex of a suckling infant are a kind of "window" into the subcortical parts.
(15) Adam Suckling, the corporate affairs director of News Corp Australia, said the provision should be considered alongside mandatory data retention and other security legislation that had passed the parliament in the past year.
(16) Strain G-K-LP showed higher pathogenicity for suckling mice than strain G-K-SP.
(17) Body weight was not affected by hormonal treatment, but the tails of the hypophysectomized sucklings were significantly lengthened by thyroxine alone, the effect being enhanced when growth hormone was also given.
(18) These findings demonstrate that the metabolism of the suckling neonate is directly related to longitudinal changes in the composition of maternal milk.
(19) Chylous ascites is a disorder visible as a white fluid in the peritoneal cavity of suckling mice.
(20) (ii) In young sucklings (10 days old), SC was virtually absent in both villus and crypt cells, but its concentration progressively increased in weanling rats and reached adult levels by day 40 postpartum.