Efficacy of IS900 blood PCR was evaluated for the presence of MAP infection. Serum, fecal, and blood samples of kids, young, and adult goats from farm and farmer's herds in Mathura district were also screened by ELISA, microscopy and culture. Of 111 goats (kids: 40, young: 14, adults: 57) screened, 77.5% were positive by blood PCR. Of 76 goats, 90.8% (kids: 87.5% and adults: 94.4%) were positiv...

Ruminoreticulum bypass was observed in 9±12-month old Angora goats using video-taped ̄uoroscopy. For experimental purposes, ruminoreticulum bypass was stimulated by yarding animals for 19±24 h before drenching, or by yarding and oral premedication with 2% cobalt sulphate solution. When bypass occurred, 50±100% of the drench was deposited in the abomasum. Ruminoreticulum bypass had no apparent e...

Gastrointestinal nematode (GIN) parasitism is the most important disease of small ruminants. Control is usually based on the use of chemical anthelmintics (dewormers); but these are prohibited from use in organic livestock, and the effectiveness of chemical anthelmintics in conventional operations is limited by high levels of anthelmintic resistance. Consequently, herbal dewormers are increasin...

Meat goat enterprise efficiency was estimated using an input distance function (IDF) by applying stochastic production frontier techniques for the southeastern U.S. region. We found increasing returns to scale and scope economies for southeastern U.S. meat goat enterprises. Mean technical efficiency was 0.81. Our results suggest southeastern U.S. meat goat enterprises can be scale efficient if ...

The Creole goat is a local meat breed well adapted to the tropical environment of Guadeloupe, a French island in the Caribbean. A survey of 47 goat farmers was conducted in May 2008 to describe the Guadeloupean goat farming systems. It was the preliminary step for the implementation of a breeding programme for Creole goats. Farmers had 31 does on average. A small number (4%) kept only Creole go...

Two clones that contain goat growth hormone (gGH) genes were isolated from goat genomic library using goat growth hormone cDNA as a probe. One clone CgGH contained gGH1 gene, and another clone, EgGH, contained gGH2 and gGH3 genes. The clone EgGH contained 491 bp inserted sequence, just upstream of the gGH3 gene, which was not present in the clone CgGH. From the sequencing data of the flanking r...

plug-flow digesters with periodic loading mechanism are more enthusiastic than fully mechanized digestion plants for the majority of small or medium scale farms according to the costs and operational complexities. a dual-compartment plug-flow reactor equipped with a passive heating system was designed and experimentally operated by purpose of demonstrating a simple and low cost technology for h...

A 5-day-old hornless goat was referred with dysuria since birth. The scrotum was absent, and a small penis-like structure was seen below the perineal raphe. On the laparotomy, the testicles were found near the inguinal ring- and attached to a uterus-like structure. On histological analysis, the uterus-like structure was blind-end. Germ cells were absent in the testis. The karyotype of this goat...

Cheese manufacture is one of the classical examples of food preservation, dating from 6000 – 7000 BC. Cheese exploits two classical principles of food preservation, i.e. lactic acid fermentation and reduction of water activity through removal of water and addition of NaCl. Establishment of low redox potential and secretion of antibiotics by starter microorganisms contributes to the storage stab...

The prevalence of coccidia infection in goats was evaluated in Western Pomerania (Poland) and West Ukraine Province. A total number of 311 goats were examined: 173 from Western Pomerania, including 139 kids (up to 6 month old), and 138 from the Lviv region including 93 juveniles. The study was based on two flotation methods, which helped to establish the number of oocysts in 1g of feces (OPG): ...