Research

Fennessy, P.F. (1986) Directions in deer breeding. 7.

Suttie, J.M. (1999) Discovering pieces of the puzzle

This article talks about teh rapid growth and regeneration of velvet antler. These unique properties of velvet may indicate the presence of novel factors in velvet which may have benefits for human health and commercial value.

Kempthorne, J. (1997) Discussion of Red Deer Breeding Policy for Increased Velvet Production at Windermere Red Deer Stud

Discussion on the breeding objectives on a Red Deer stud, describes the selection policy for superior velvet genetics

Badger, S. (1984) Disease Prevention and Monitoring

Thomson, A. (1995) Disease Susceptibility, Stress and Welfare A Link.

Disease susceptibility is influenced by both genetic and environmental factors. This paper looks at the how stress can affect disease susceptibility

Selwyn, P. (1992) Diseases and Defects of Slaugthered Farmed Deer

This paper procides information on the prevalence of diseases and defects ina large number of farmed deer over a full slaughter season, with particular emphasis on trauma-related conditions

Mackintosh, C.G. (1990) Diseases of Farmed Deer in New Zealand

A review of diseases affecting farmed deer in New Zealand

Tate, M.L. (1998) DNA-Matching in deer

New DNA technologies offer the potentail to identify parents of a deer calf from among hundreds of possible parents. This paper examines the power of the 13 marker DNA parentage test for deer developedby AgResearch

Griffin, J.F.T. (1988) Do Deer Develop Immunity to Tuberculosis?

Scott, I.C. (2012) Does nutritional status during the latter stage of pregnancy mediate the effect of conception date on gestation length in red deer hinds?

Voluntary food intake of hinds during gestatio

Gray, L. (1992) Double headed attack on lungworm.

Walton, T. (1990) Dramatic progress with fallow AI

Outlines progress with artificial insemination - AI - and semen collection techniques for fallow deer

Matthews, C. (1995) Drench to beat fading elk.

Tate, M.L. (1991) Drenching Mr Brackenridge's can of worms

Discussion of the use of hybrid identification test results

Bartels, M. (2001) Dynamics of local anaesthetics for velvet antler analgesia

Velvet antler removal is ethically defensible if the wellbeing of the stag is not unacceptably compromised.