December 2017

Community based assessment of the importance of Newcastle disease in village chickens in Bauchi State, Nigeria

A study on the importance of Newcastle disease (ND) in village chickens was conducted among farmers, poultry traders and community leaders using a focus group discussion (FGD) on village chicken production in eight communities of Bauchi State, Nigeria. Participatory epidemiologic tools of proportional piling and pair wise ranking were used by all the participants of FGD to rank by importance common diseases of village...

Author(s): Adamu G. Sule, Paul A. Abdu, Junaidu Kabir and Grace S. A. Kia

December 2017

Characteristics of small-scale sheep production systems in some communal areas of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

The objective of this study was to examine the characteristics of small-scale livestock production systems in some communal areas of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. The parameters surveyed include sex, age, educational and marital status of the farmers, types of livestock raised and production system practiced. The study revealed that mixed crop-livestock production systems were dominant in the study area....

Author(s): S. Mthi, A. Skenjana and P. O. Fayemi