Black Forest horses are typically chestnut colored with flaxen mane and tail. However, as their coat color can get very dark, they are sometimes also indicated as silver, a color depending on a black base color. To analyse if the silver allele is present in the Black Forest horse population, we genotyped 250 horses of this breed for formerly reported coat color mutations within MC1R and SILV. A...

black forest horses are typically chestnut colored with flaxen mane and tail. however, as their coat color can get very dark, they are sometimes also indicated as silver, a color depending on a black base color. to analyse if the silver allele is present in the black forest horse population, we genotyped 250 horses of this breed for formerly reported coat color mutations within mc1r and silv. a...

twenty pregnant buffaloes, eight weeks before the expected calving date, were assigned into two homogeneous groups of 10 animals each, according to their season of lactation (2nd to 8th season of lactation); the first group (g1) were fed on a ration consisting of concentrate feed mixture (22% yellow corn, 35% cotton seed meal, 33% wheat bran, 4% rice bran, 3% molasses, 2% limestone and 1% sodiu...

the present study was conducted with a view to know the productive and reproductive performance of jamunapari, black bengal and crossbred goats in chittagong district during the period of may to december 2012. the data on productive and reproductive traits were collected from 324 goats as a whole. in the present study, the birth weight of jamunapari goats was higher than other crosses. the adul...

background there is the controversy concerning the main component of tobacco, which is responsible for its arrhythmogenesis. in addition, there is the lack of adequate information about the influence of combination of black tea and nicotine on heart rhythm. objectives this study aimed to examine whether pretreatment with black tea and nicotine could modulate the susceptibility to lethal ventric...