Bluetongue disease or catarrhal fever is a non-contagious, insect-borne, viral disease of ruminants, mainly sheep and less frequently cattle, goats, buffalo, deer, dromedaries and antelope.

BTV also infects goats, cattle and other domestic animals as well as wild ruminants ( for example, blesbuck, white-tailed deer, elk, and pronghorn antelope ).

Although the disease is not a threat to humans the most vulnerable common domestic ruminants in the UK are cattle, goats and, especially, sheep.

Many farmers in the region combine subsistence agriculture with the raising of cattle, sheep, goats, and poultry.

Once this islands were covered with savanna on the plains and arid shrubland on the mountainsides, but over 500 years of human habtitation, since colonisation by the Portuguese in the 15th century, nearly all the original vegetation has been cleared by widespread agriculture including the grazing of goats, sheep and cattle and the planting of imported crop species.

Sheep, goats, cattle ( especially zebu ), and camels make up the majority of Eritrea ’ s livestock.

In 2001, Eritrea had 2, 100, 000 sheep, 1, 700, 000 goats, 1, 950, 000 head of cattle, 75, 000 camels, and 1. 4 million chickens.

In 2005 there were an estimated 212, 000 hogs, 195, 000 sheep, 90, 000 goats, 35, 000 head of cattle, and 3. 1 million chickens.

rice, coffee, pineapples, palm kernels, cassava ( tapioca ), bananas, sweet potatoes ; cattle, sheep, goats ; timber

bananas, sugarcane, tropical fruits and vegetables ; cattle, pigs, goats

The climate and terrain has tended to favour the breeding of goats and sheep over cattle, and thus beef dishes are uncommon.

The Huns kept herds of cattle, horses, goats and sheep.

On the northern borders of the Sahel, grazing cattle, sheep, goats, and camels were major activities.

Livestock holdings were 400, 000 head of cattle, 440, 000 goats, 180, 000 hogs & 30, 000 sheep.

* Particular fats ( cheilev ): particular parts of the abdominal fat of cattle, goats and sheep must be removed by a process called nikkur

Mountain laurel is poisonous to several different animals due to andromedotoxin and arbutin, including horses, goats, cattle, sheep, deer, and monkeys and humans.

In the first two months of 1930, peasants killed millions of cattle, horses, pigs, sheep, and goats.

Agriculture-products: sugarcane, tea, corn, potatoes, bananas, pulses ; cattle, goats ; fish

wheat, barley, vegetables, forage crops, sheep, goats, cattle, camels, horses

The fifth was diseases on the Egyptians ' cattle, oxen, goats, sheep, camels, and horses.

In many cultures of the world, especially the Western world, humans continue to consume milk beyond infancy, using the milk of other animals ( especially cattle, goats and sheep ) as a food product.

On the other hand, those groups who do continue to tolerate milk often have exercised great creativity in using the milk of domesticated ungulates, not only of cattle, but also sheep, goats, yaks, water buffalo, horses, reindeers and camels.

In the 1520s, while Spanish conquistadors were invading Mexico, they introduced a variety of animals, including cattle, chickens, goats, sheep and pigs.

It is one of the earliest sites with evidence of farming ( wheat and barley ) and herding ( cattle, sheep and goats ) in South Asia.

The American influence through film has led to the localised adoption of terms such as bronco for the native brumby meaning wild horse, and cowboy for the native drover and stockman for a cattle or sheep herder, though such words are still overtly felt to be " Americanisms ".

The aurochs ( or ; also urus, ( Bos primigenius ), the ancestor of domestic cattle, is an extinct type of large wild cattle that inhabited Europe, Asia and North Africa ; they survived in Europe until the last recorded aurochs, a female, died in the Jaktorów Forest, Poland in 1627.

Standing at at the shoulder, it is even smaller than the lowland anoa and the smallest of all wild cattle.

The single suckler system of rearing calves is similar to that occurring naturally in wild cattle, where each calf is suckled by its own mother until it is weaned at about nine months old.

Poorer colonists subsisted by hunting the herds of wild cattle that roamed throughout the island and selling their hides.

There was also trade in cow hides from the wild descendants of cattle introduced by French settlers in the late 18th century.

Fish are seen in the cuisine, often served with a beurre blanc sauce, as well as wild game, lamb, calves, Charolais cattle, Géline fowl, and high quality goat cheeses.

Leopards, hyenas, lynxes, wolves and bears lived among wild cattle, horses, deer, ibexes, oryxes and rhinos – all surrounded by olive trees and stone pines, with partridges and ducks overhead, tortoises in the underbrush and mussels, limpets and other shellfish in the waters.

Many of the inhabitants fought, escaped to the jungle, or fled to the safety of passing Dutch ships This Spanish action was counterproductive as English, Dutch, and French pirates were now free to establish bases on the island's abandoned northern and western coasts, where wild cattle were now plentiful and free.

French buccaneers established a settlement on the island of Tortuga in 1625, and were soon joined by like minded English and Dutch privateers and pirates, who formed a lawless international community that survived by preying on Spanish ships and hunting wild cattle.

The people started capturing wild cattle and holding them in circular thorn hedges, resulting in domestication.

He declared and taught that the Egyptians and Africans entertained erroneous sentiments, in representing the Divinity under the likeness of wild beasts and cattle of the field ; that the Greeks also were in error in making images of their gods after the human form.

The Maasai were known as fierce warriors, and lived alongside most wild animals with an aversion to eating game and birds, subsisting exclusively on their cattle.

Domestic cattle, on the other hand, can be considered the same species as several varieties of wild ox, gaur, yak, etc., as they readily produce fertile offspring with them.

The biggest threats the species faces are its small population size, predation by wild dogs, competition for food because of overgrazing by cattle and sheep, and disease.

Wildebeest is Dutch for " wild beast " or " wild cattle " in Afrikaans ( beest = cattle ), while Connochaetes derives from the Greek words konnos ( beard ) and khaite ( flowing hair ).

When Artemis was forgotten at a sacrifice by King Oineus, she was angered and sent a wild boar that ravaged the land, men, and cattle and prevented crops from being sown.

The " unicorn " figures on the seals have been interpreted as representations of aurochs — a type of large wild cattle that formerly inhabited Europe, Asia and North Africa — or derivatives of aurochs.

Ranchers, under extremely strict sanitation regulations, see their cattle and sheep coming into biological contact with these unchecked wild populations.