Stephan Wildeus ()                                                      

Position

Associate Research Professor - Small Ruminants
 

Institution

Agricultural Research Station
Virginia State University
 

Address

Box 9061
Virginia State University
Petersburg, VA 23806
 

Education

Montana State University, Bozeman, MT,        B.S. (Animal Science), 1978
James Cook University, Townsville, Australia, Ph.D. (Animal Reproduction), 1983
Texas A&M University, Beeville, TX, Post-Doc (Animal Reproduction), 1985
 

Professional Experience

Research Assistant/Associate Professor, Agricultural Experiment Station, University of the Virgin Islands, St. Croix, 1985 - 92
Assistant/Associate Research Professor, Agricultural Research Station, Virginia State University, Petersburg, 1992 - present
 

Research Interests

Forage-based production systems for hair sheep and meat goats; assisted reproductive technologies for use in small ruminant breed preservation
 

Relevant Publications

Turner, K.E, Wildeus, S. and  Collins, J.R. (2005) Intake, performance and blood parameters in young goats offered high forage diets of lespedeza or alfalfa hay.  Small Rumin. Res., 59:15-23 

Pao, S., Patel, D., Kalantari, A, Tritschler, J.P., Wildeus, S. and Sayre, B.L. (2005) Detection and isolation of salmonella and Escherichia coli O157:H7 from feces of small ruminants.  Appl.  Environ. Microbiol., 71:2158-2161 

Wildeus, S., Miller, J.E. and Collins, J.R. (2005) Effect of breed, rearing management, and supplement type on gastrointestinal parasitism in hair sheep lambs. J. Anim. Sci., 83, Suppl. 2:14-15 

Wildeus, S., Zajac, A. M., Turner, K. E., and Collins, J. R. (2004)  The effect of Quebracho tannin supplementation on growth and parasitism in young goat and hair sheep grazing parasite-infected pasture.  J. Anim. Sci., 82, Suppl. 2:29 

Wildeus, S., Miller, J. E, and Collins, J. R. (2003) Gastrointestinal parasitism in pasture and pen-reared lambs of three hair sheep breeds in the southeastern U. S.  J. Anim. Sci., 81, Suppl. 2:23 

Wildeus, S., Zajac, A. M., Turner, K. E., and Collins, J. R. (2003) Indicators of gastrointestinal parasitism after an experimental Heamonchus contortus infection in young goats receiving dietary Quebracho tannin.  J. Anim. Sci., 81, Suppl. 2:25 

Wildeus, S. and Zajac, A. M. (2002) Indicators of gastrointestinal parasitism in breeds of goats and hair sheep continuously or rotationally grazing naturally infected pasture.  J. Anim. Sci., 80, Suppl. 2:32 

Zajac, A., Wildeus, S. and Duncan, R. (2001)  Parasite resistance in an improved West Indian hair sheep breed. 18th Int. Conf. World Assoc. for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology, Stresa, Italy, August 2001. 

Zajac, A., Gipson, T., Wildeus, S. and Sponenberg, D.P. (1999) Breed resistance to trichostrongylid parasites of goats in the U.S., In Proc. 17th Int. Conf. of the WAAVP, Copenhagen, Denmark, p. 7.48 

Zajac, A.M. and Wildeus, S. (1999)  Trichostrongyle infection in Katahdin lambs and Spanish kids in Virginia.  44th Ann. Meet. Am. Assoc. Vet. Parasitologists, New Orleans, LA. 

Wildeus, S. (1997) Hair sheep genetic resources and their contribution to diversified small ruminant production in the United States.  J. Anim. Sci., 75:630-640.