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Collaborative project: Sustainable prevention and eradication of footrot in sheep - subproject 1 (MORes)
Project
Project code: 281B102216
Contract period: 10.08.2018
- 09.10.2021
Budget: 764,728 Euro
Purpose of research: Inventory & Assessment
Keywords: sheep farming, animal health, climate change
The MoRes project has developed sustainable footrot elimination and prophylaxis programmes and a national breeding programme for footrot resistant sheep. Digitised recording systems can now be used for these purposes, linking electronic ear tags of the animals with farm, animal and sample data and transferring the data to other computers. Multivariable models were used to work out climatically determined factors of the epidemiology and virulence of the footrot pathogen Dichelobacter nodosus, influences of soil types, sheep breeds, farm and pasture management. The sanitation programmes were adapted to the specific farm conditions and supplemented with the determination of pathogen diversity and virulence and genetic resistance of the animals. In this way, the goal was achieved that sheep can better withstand footrot in rising temperatures and periods of heavy rainfall, and that wet areas can be grazed with footrot-resistant sheep. The genome data can also be used for the long-term conservation of genetic diversity.
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Subjects
- Animal health
- Climate Change
