It has generally been accepted that keratins are not attacked by enzymes. In a review of the literature by Barritt (1) the property of non-digestibility was an essential part of the definition of a keratin. However, there has been evidence for the digestion of wool by pancreatin. Wool that had been suspended in solutions of varying pH (2 to 10) for 48 hours at room temperature was slowly attack...

Twenty Naieni breed replacement ewe lambs were used to determine the substitution effects of treated wheat straw with exogenous fiber-degrading enzymes for alfalfa hay on wool characteristics. Five treatment diets were included: 1) control (100% alfalfa hay without wheat straw), 2) 10% enzyme treated wheat straw replaced for alfalfa hay, 3) 20% enzyme treated wheat straw replaced for alfalfa ha...

This study aims to estimate the economic returns of sheep and goat rearing as well total cost identify profit margin made by out each farmer. The random sample consists 196 breeders who breed 58240, goats in Karak governorate Jordan. represents 13% population (445300) Karak. primary data were collected through personal interviews with farmers using a questionnaire. questionnaire was designed ac...

(R1 and R2, polypeptide chains.) The optimum pH for the reaction is 5. Increasing the temperature, time of reaction or concentration ofNaHSO3 does not cause more than about one-third of the disulphide-S to react [Elsworth & Phillips, 1941]. The reaction is slowly reversed when the bisulphited wool is rinsed with cold water, but it is possible to free the treated wool from uncombined NaHSO3 and ...

in order to estimate economic values of productive traits (meat, milk and wool) in taleshi native sheep breed of iran, records from economic parameters and performance of local taleshi flocks were used. the economic values of traits were used to select the maximum profit estimation also to study the sensitivity rate of the model the effects of 20 percent increase / decrease in the price of milk...

The aim of the present experiment was to determine the growth hormone (GH) and prolactin (PRL) secretions in relation to the milk yield of lambed sheep used for milk under different photoperiodic conditions. The study was carried out at the Experimental Station of the Department of Sheep and Goat Breeding of the Agricultural University in Krakow, using 60 Polish Long-wool sheep assigned to thre...

T HE development of the Targhee breed of sheep began in i9=6 when the Bureau of Animal Industry at the U. S. Sheep Experiment Station, Dubois, Idaho mated select Rambouillet rams with select ewes of Corriedale XLincoln-Rambouillet and Lincoln XRambouillet combinations. Descendants of these crosses have been interbred and carefully selected to produce Targhee sheep. Spencer and Stoehr (x94L) hav...

The relations of lung function and chest radiographic appearances with exposure to inspirable dust were examined in 634 workers in five wool textile mills in west Yorkshire, randomly selected to represent fully the range of current exposures to wool mill dust. Most of these workers could be categorised into three large sex and ethnic groups; European men, Asian men, and Asian women. Exposures t...