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Applicant: Olds College – Sean Thompson
Timeline: September 1, 2021 – June 30, 2024
- Identification and quantification of a panel of predictive blood markers of sheep parasitic infection
Applicant: University of Guelph – Andrew Peregrine
Timeline: September 1, 2021 – January 31, 2026
- To determine if replacement ewe lambs with medium to-high CarLA® salivary values at the end of their grazing season, have lower levels of gastrointestinal parasitism in their second grazing season, compared to ewe lambs with no to low CarLA® salivary values (L-CARLA) , in a variety of breeds and farm management systems.
- To standardize protocols for CarLA® phenotyping in Ontario sheep, with resultant data that can be used in future studies to develop heritability estimates for genetic improvement programmes such as GenOvis
- To compare the levels of gastrointestinal parasitism and growth performance of offspring of primiparous medium to-high CarLA®and low CarLA® ewes.
Applicant: University of Guelph – Niel Karrow
Timeline: January 2022 – January 30, 2025
To assess impact of dietary selenium (Se) or fish oil (FO) supplements on colostrum quality and postnatal lamb growth and health.
- Characterize colostrum bioactives
- Assess passive transfer of bioactives from colostrum to postnatal lamb
- Associate colostrum bioactives with lamb robustness
- Characterize the colostrum bioactives from variable stress phenotyped ewes augmenting postnatal growth and health
- Characterize colostrum bioactives
- Assess passive transfer of bioactives from colostrum and postnatal lamb
- Associate colostrum bioactives with lamb robustness
Applicant: University of Guelph – Cathy Bauman
Timeline: February 1, 2021 – July 31, 2022
- Evaluate the efficacy of Ovipast Plus bacterin to reduce morbidity and mortality from pneumonia in preweaned lambs by vaccinating ewes twice prior to lambing to boost colostral immunity
- Evaluate the efficacy of Ovipast Plus bacterin in weaned lambs to reduce morbidity and mortality from pneumonia by vaccinating them twice, at weaning and boosting them a few weeks later
Applicant: Lakeland College – Susan Markus
Timeline: August 2, 2021 – July 30, 2023
- To develop a single handheld point-of-care device capable of accurately detecting both sheep pregnancy and estimating litter size at ~50 days