Rose C H, Nansen P, Jørgensen R J, Jacobs D E
Nord Vet Med. 1984 Mar-Apr;36(3-4):65-76.
The economy of the Greenlandic sheep industry has always operated on a thin edge, the balance being determined by long-term changes in climate and year-to-year weather fluctuations. During the last decades sheep farming has been intensified in many areas, and more rational management systems have been introduced under the guidance of agricultural and veterinary consultants. Improvements include winter feeding, strategic breeding and lambing practices and disease control programmes. Successful efforts are being made to prevent the recurrence of previous dramatic declines in the sheep population and to diminish losses of growing lambs grazing the extensive rangelands. However, the overall disease situation and the effect of environmental stresses on the breeding stock and growing lambs in this unique, subarctic region are far from being fully explored.
格陵兰养羊业的经济一直处于微妙的平衡状态，这种平衡由气候的长期变化和逐年的天气波动决定。在过去几十年里，许多地区的养羊业得到了强化，并在农业和兽医顾问的指导下引入了更合理的管理系统。改进措施包括冬季饲养、战略性繁殖和产羔方法以及疾病控制计划。人们正在成功地努力防止羊只数量再次出现此前的急剧下降，并减少在广阔牧场放牧的生长羔羊的损失。然而，在这个独特的亚北极地区，整体疾病状况以及环境压力对种羊和生长羔羊的影响仍远未得到充分研究。
