Advances in dairy Research

Advances in dairy Research
Open Access

ISSN: 2329-888X

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George F. W. Haenlein

Department of Animal and Food Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, United States

Publications
  • Review Article   
    Enterotoxemia: The Deadly Disease Affecting Goats and Sheep Production
    Author(s): George F. W. Haenlein* and Young W. Park

    Roughages and plant cell walls are not digestible in human gastrointestinal system. However, ruminants, such as cow, goats and sheep are designed by nature to thrive on roughage and fibrous feeds and are great converters of such feeds which are neither very digestible nor nutritious among humans, into meat, milk and wool fiber. In fact, ruminants, as the host animals play a symbiotic relationship with a multitude of beneficial bacteria in their rumen, where these rumen microorganisms digest the fiber, while the ruminant animal plays the role of bacterial host benefitting from the microbial digestion products of roughage feeds. Maintenance of an optimal pH is one condition that is essential for these beneficial bacteria to survive and multiply. However, when the pH optimum gets disrupted or changed, other pathogenic bacteria species (Eg. Clostridia spp.) w.. View More»
    DOI: 10.35248/2329-888X.24.12.658

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