In surrogate pregnancies genetic parents have little opportunity for early bonding with their infants either prenatally (in utero) or during the immediate postnatal period. Procedures commonly used to induce lactation include both pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic methods often in combination. Studies reporting induced lactation are sparse due to the rarity of augmented lactation. Here we repo...

in this paper, we give some characterizations for legendre spherical, legendre normal and legendre rectifying curves in the 3-dimensional sasakian space. furthermore, we show that legendre spherical curves are also legendre normal curves. in particular, we prove that the inverse of curvature of a legendre rectifying curve is a non-constant linear function of the arclength parameter.

The molecular events underlying the lactation curve of dairy animals have long been a biological conundrum for mammary biologists, and cause considerable loss income farmers. To better understand regulatory mechanisms developmental processes gland during cycle, whole-genome transcriptome profiles bovine tissues at five different stages were investigated using RNA-Seq technique. differentially e...

The aim of the present study was to compare the occurrence and duration of clinical mastitis in different seasons, stages of lactation period and parities in a Holstein dairy farm in Iran. A retrospective epidemiological survey from April 2005 to March 2008 was conducted on 884 clinical mastitis cases of 7437 lactations. Data of each case including calendar-date of mastitis onset, days in milk ...

C.B. Wasike, A.K. Kahi & K.J. Peters 1 Department of Animal Science, School of Agriculture and Food Security, Maseno University, Private Bag, 40105 Maseno, Kenya; 2 Animal Breeding and Genetics Group, Department of Animal Sciences, Egerton University, P.O. Box 536, 20115 Egerton, Kenya; 3 Animal Breeding and Genetics Consultant, Sheep and Goat Association of BerlinBrandenburg, Dieselstr. 10, D ...

In the present work, covariance components for milk yield and disease liability were estimated with bivariate random regression test-day sire models using a Bayesian approach and implemented via the Gibbs sampler. The data consist of 8075 first-parity Danish Holstein (DH) cows, from 1259 sires, performing in 57 herds from 1992 to 1997. Treatments associated with five different type of diseases ...

the purpose of this study was to determine the effects of feeding iron-deficient diet during pregnancy and lactation on maternal rats. a total number of 64 rats were divided into 4 groups (pregnant), (non pregnant), (lactating) and (non lactating) with 16 animals in each group. parameters used to evaluate the effects of dietary iron deficiency on the maternal animals were: iron contents of live...

M. H. FATHI NASRI , J. FRANCE , N. E. ODONGO , S. LOPEZ , A. BANNINK 5 AND E. KEBREAB 6* 1Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Birjand, Birjand, Iran 2Centre for Nutrition Modelling, Department of Animal and Poultry Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada 3Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge Research Centre, Lethbridge, AB, T1J 4B1, Can...

Aim: The aim was to compare standard lactation curve models using fortnightly milk records in Frieswal cattle. Materials and Methods: A total of 2904 fortnightly milk yield (FMY) records from 132 Frieswal cattle maintained at Military Farm, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh were taken for study. The Wood (WD), Morant and Gnanasakthy (MG), Mitscherlich x Exponential (ME), and Wilmink (WK) models were fitt...