This paper presents some central findings of an exploratory qualitative study of New Zealand families with children conceived by donor insemination (DI). Drawing on social anthropological and sociological theorising about kinship and contemporary Western families, the paper explores the ways in which parents and their kin actively construct parent-child relationships and kin connections through...

Background Low-density lipoproteins (LDL) is known to protect boar sperm during freezing–thawing, but little information is known about the effects of LDL extracted from different avian egg yolks on post-thaw boar semen quality. The purpose of this study was to compare and analyze the effects of LDL at various concentrations and different species on boar sperm quality after freezing–thawing. Ma...

This study aims to analyze the Break-Even Point of Backyard laying hens business in Sidenreng Rappang Regency. research was conducted Bulo Village, backyard farm. from February April 2020. In this used a case study, results are not generalized. The total profit earned by these people's farm is IDR 137,717,244. For price 37,000 eggs, it will reach BEP at 1,617,723/ egg, 1,436,727,272 with egg 88...

to study the effects of post-stripping oocyte ageing at low temperatures on the viability of kutum (rutilus kutum) oocytes, unfertilised eggs of five females were stored in ovarian fluid at temperatures of 4 and 7 degree centigrade for 24 hours post stripping (hps). the stored ova of five female kutum were separately fertilised at 0 (i.e., control eggs fertilised prior to storage), 4, 8, 12, 16...

this experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of different levels of l-carnitine on productive performance, egg quality and blood parameters in laying hens. forty-eight hy-line w-36 egg layers were weighed at 90 weeks of age and randomly allocated into 16 cages (three hens per cage). four dietary treatments were prepared by supplementing l-carnitine (0, 50, 100 and 150 mg/kg of diet)...

an experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of dietary crude protein and methionine levels on quality and quantity of egg production. fifteen diets formulated with 3 levels of protein (13, 14 and 15%) and 5 levels of methionine (0.25, 0.28, 0.31, 0.34 and 0.37%) and fed to 420 birds in a 3×5 factorial arrangement. each diet was randomly fed to 4 replicates of 7 birds each and fed for 3 p...

deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (dalk) has recently been introduced as an alternative procedure to penetrating keratoplasty (pk) for corneal pathologies not affecting the corneal endothelium. dalk does not rely on donor endothelium and requires less rigid criteria for donor corneal tissue quality. therefore, dalk makes it possible to use donor corneas deemed unsuitable for pk. furthermore, ...