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unthriftiness

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unthriftiness
failure to grow or to put on weight as well as expected in the presence of adequate quantity and quality of feed, and in the absence of overt clinical signs of illness. Called also illthrift. See also weaner illthrift.

post-weaning unthriftiness
occurs in young animals that are weaned at too young an age or without being weaned onto a suitable transitional diet.
selenium-responsive unthriftiness
a condition seen in marginally deficient areas; affected ewes respond well in terms of body weight and milk yield to supplemental selenium although their clinicopathological indicants are in the normal range.


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Similar in its violent anti-Cromwellianism, its lively, if scurrilous, anecdotes, and its interspersed, learned Latin and Greek quotations, Heath's text, 172-73, comments briefly but tellingly on Elizabeth Cromwell, "who very frugally Huswived it, and would nicely and finically tax the expensive unthriftiness (as said she) of the Other Woman who lived there [in Whitehall] before her.
Poor growth / unthriftiness, anaemia, temporary infertility, bone defects / fractures / lameness, hair changes, diarrhoea, low milk yield and in sheep swayback is usually the main feature.
Vitamin E deficiency can lead to poor fertility, unthriftiness and low disease resistance, as well as reduced vigour in lamb, stiff joints - often mistaken for joint ill - and unexplained sudden death.
 
 
 
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