title: [Promotion of wool growth and body weight development of sheep by alimentary supplementation with thiocyanate].
abstract: Adult sheep were administered 12 mg thiocyanate (SCN-)/kg body weight orally twice a year in altogether 16 respectively 41 single doses under conventional keeping during the period of stabling (winter) in two consecutive years. Fattening lambs got an analogous SCN- dosage with altogether 4 respectively 34 single doses under intensive keeping. Aided by this temporarily obtained balance of an alimentary SCN- deficiency the following effects were reached during conventional keeping: Significant increase of the wool mass in the greasy state and a tendency to better breading performance. During intensive fattening an increase of the wool mass and of the staple cross-section was proven statistically in the mean for all the test animals, but for the increase of the staple length it could be shown only by comparison of twins.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Hygiene und Umweltmedizin sowie Klinik und Poliklinik für Nuklearmedizin, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kramer
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Weuffen
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hiepe
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Völzke
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Völzke
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Thürkow
authors.forename: W D
authors.initials: WD
authors.lastname: Jülich
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Weber
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging; D000818:Animals; D001835:Body Weight / Q000187:drug effects; D005527:Food, Fortified; D012756:Sheep; D013861:Thiocyanates / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000494:pharmacology*; D015430:Weight Gain / Q000187:drug effects*; D014935:Wool / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000254:growth & development
chemical_list: D013861:Thiocyanates; C031760:thiocyanate