Completed research

• Genetically size-scaled growth and composition
  of Dorset and Suffolk Rams (1994)
• Feeding ewes with triplet lambs (1994)
• Vaccination schedules to prevent overeating disease (enterotoxemia) (1997)
• Fertility under the STAR system (1996)
• Effects of Birth Weight and Postnatal Nutrition on Neonatal Sheep:
  I. Body Growth and Composition, and Some Aspects
  of Energetic Efficiency (PDF) (1998
• Raw soybeans or soybean meal with no fish meal, commodity fish meal or Sea Lac fish meal for growing lambs (PDF) (1999)
• Intrauterine growth retardation is associated with reduced cell cycle activity, but not myfibre number, in ovine fetal muscle (PDF) (1999)
• An ultrasound guided procedure to administer a label of DNA synthesis into fetal sheep (PDF) (1999)
• Nutritional regulation of genes encoding the acid labile subunit and other components of the circulating insulin-like growth factor system in the sheep (PDF) (2000)
• Influences on placental and fetal weights during mid to late gestation in prolific ewes well-nourished throughout pregnancy (PDF) (2000)
• Effects of birth weight and postnatal nutrition on neonatal sheep:
  II. Skeletal muscle growth and development (PDF) (2000)
• Maternal leptin is elevated during pregnancy in sheep (2001)
• Pediction of stage of maturity in prolific sheep using ultrasound measurement of fetal bones (PDF) (2002)
• Effects of birth weight and postnatal nutrition on neonatal sheep:
  III. Regulation of energy metabolism (PDF) (2002)
• Gene expression in sexually dimorphic muscles in sheep (PDF) (2002)
• Growth and feed efficiency of early-weaned lambs fed diets with and without Bio-Mos (PDF) (2002)
• Nasal vaccination of ewes and newborn lambs against PI3 to prevent lamb pneumoni (PDF) (2002)
• Source and level of supplemental protein for growing lambs (PDF) (2004)
• Effect of testosterone on insulin-like growth factor-I, androgen receptor, and myostatin gene expression in splenius and semitendinosus muscles in sheep (PDF) (2005)
• Prepubertal mammary development in the bovine: Influence of nutrition and age at puberty (PDF) (2004) This paper is not about sheep, but it provides an update about the effect - or lack of effect - of nutrition on mammary development. The conclusion of the paper is: "While the mammary fat pad appears responsive to nutrient partitioning hormone concentrations that change in response to an elevated plane of nutrition, the mammary parenchyma does not. Plane of nutrition has no influence on parenchyma DNA accretion rates or long-term mammary epithelial cell proliferation. Instead the time between birth and slaughter appears to have a substantial influence on prepubertal mammary development."
• Effect of fermentable fiber and protein source on feed intake and efficiency of growing lambs (PDF 2006)
• Antibody and skin-test responses of sheep vaccinated against Johne's disease (PDF 2007)

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Only abstract pages are given for most of the refereed journal files.