A 9-year-old nonpregnant, nonlactating doe Boer goat was examined because of a 2-day history of not being able to stand. Other than diarrhea associated with coccidiosis in the first year of life, the goat did not have a history of illness. The owner had obtained the goat at approximately 2 months of age. The goat lived with 3 other goats in the same pen on the same premise located on the coasta...

Body weight and 16 body measurements were utilized to discriminate between 188 animals randomly selected from three Saudi goat types, namely Ardi, Line1 and Line2. A size-free canonical discriminant analysis was conducted. Results indicated that Ardi breed is separated from the other two lines. The Mahalanobis distance of 0.55 was obtained between Line1 and Line2, while the corresponding distan...


 This study aims to determine the productivity of Panicum maximum cv. Trichoglume with different types and dosage organic fertilizer. The trial was for 2 months, factorial completely randomized design (CRD). first factor were type fertilizer: S (cow manure); K (goat SK goat manure), second D0 (0 ton ha-1); D1 (10 tons D2 (20 D3 (30 ha-1). There 12 treatment combinations each repeated 4 ti...

The objective of the study was to evaluate the use of goat ileum preparation for the estimation of unknown concentration of acetylcholine by three point bioassay. The graded doses of acetylcholine have shown dose dependent increase in contraction of isolated goat ileum. The responses obtained by this tissue preparation were similar to those with guinea pig ileum preparation. The goat ileum can ...

The Damascus goat, also known as the Shami, is a native breed of Syria and other Near East countries. It was imported into Cyprus some 70 years ago to upgrade the local Cypriot goat population. For over 40 years it has been improved through genetic selection for milk and meat. The Damascus goat was one of the breeds that the Technical Consultation of FAO/UNEB on Animal Genetic Resources, Conser...

_______________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract Three commercial and three indigenous goat populations from South Africa were studied for genetic variation using ten microsatellite markers. Heterozygosity values of between 0.62 and 0.69 were obtained for the populations, except for the SA Boer Goat, which had the lowest variation (0.49). Genetic ...

Comparative histology of the caecum of adult cattle,sheep and goat was studied. Caecum of all three animals consisted of four layers namely tunica mucosa, tela submucosa,tunica muscularis and tunica Serosa. Intestinal glands were mostly located at base region of tunica mucosa . In caecum of goat mucus secreting intestional glands were present in the close vicinity of lamina muscularis and serou...

BACKGROUND Little is understood about the regulation of gene expression during early goat embryo development. This study investigated the expression profile of 19 genes, known to be critical for early embryo development in mouse and human, at five different stages of goat in vitro embryo development (oocyte, 8-16 cell, morula, day-7 blastocyst, and day 14 blastocyst). MATERIALS AND METHODS In...

Mountain goats (Oreamnos americanus) are among the most culturally and economically important large mammal species in Alaska. Due to their low population growth rates and relatively high degree of sensitivity to natural and anthropogenic disturbance, resource management decisions must be carefully evaluated to ensure sustainable populations. In this study we combined data collected from 124 GPS...