Research

Fennessy, P.F. (1981) Budding of spikers (letter)

Walton, T. (1989) By Bye Rye - Red clover in Minkhorst Stadium upset.

Article outlining science comparing perennial ryegrass to red clover and chicory

Muir, P.D. (1987) Calcium metabolism in red deer (Cervus elaphus) offered herbages during antlerogenesis: kinetic and stable balance studies.

This paper describes preliminary kinetic studies of Ca metabolism in stags consuming forage diets during the period of rapid antler mineralisation

Asher, G. W. (1981) Calving and fawning performances of red and fallow deer in Northern North Island regions.

Objectives were to obtain a measure of female productivity in terms of calving/fawning rates, weaning percentage and pre-weaning mortality

Cowie, G.M. (1985) Calving Behaviour of Framed Red Deer

Pollard, J.C. (2002) Calving environments for farmed red deer: a review of current knowledge and a polit study on soil quality.

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Asher, G. W. (1999) Captive breeding programme for mesopotamian fallow deer: A subspecies surrogacy approach

Outlines the surrogacy model being employed in relation to Mesopotamian fallow deer (an endangered species) using assisted reproductive technologies that have been developed and applied to farmed fallow deer. This may provide a useful surrogacy model for other endangered cervid species

Drew, K.R. (1991) Carcass characteristics and optimal slaughter time in deer

Includes discussion on age at slaughter, carcass fatness, wholesale carcass portions, deer crossbreeding, carcass composition and nutrient compostion of meat

Goosen, D.G. (1999) Carcass composition comparison of male and female red deer and hybrids with Pere Davids deer.

Evaluation of total carcass muscle, bone and fat as well as the differences in the distribution of these tissues between genotypes and genders

Hogg, B.W. (1990) Carcass composition in male fallow deer: age and castration effetcs on dissected tissue distribution.

To describe the effects of age and castration of vanison production and other components of saleable product in fallow deer at commercial carcass weights ate either 1 or 2 years of age. Major outcomes were that castration reduced carcass weight, and that older animals had higher a proportion of venison and lower proportion of bone

Ward, J.F. (2017) CARLA saliva antibody response in the Deer Progeny Test