this study was conducted at beresa watershed district of guraghe administrative zone, the southern regional state of ethiopia to evaluate the on-farm reproductive and egg production performances of local kei and its f1 crosses with fayoumi and rhode island red (rir) chicken breeds under farmers’ management. the local kei paternal line was mated with maternal lines of fayoumi and rir chickens to...

This study was conducted to assess the possible effects of zinc oxide (ZnO) and nano zinc oxide(nZnO) on growth performance as well as the level of Ca, P, Fe, Cu and Zn in Markhoz goat kidsblood samples. Thirty 5-6 months male Markhoz goat kids were supplemented with 22.12 mg ofZn/ kg DM as basal diet for 70 days. Zinc was administered at daily doses of zero, 20 and 40ppm in ZnO group , and 20 ...

one hundred female markhoz goats (42±5 kg) were used to investigate the ‘male effect’ on estrous synchronization and reproductive characteristics of female goat during the breeding season. this was carried out in three separate experiments. in the first experiment, forty female goats were used in 4 groups with different distance from the male goats (i.e. source of pheromone secretion); a1 (1 me...

an experiment conducted to evaluate the level of molybdenum, sulphur and iron ‎supplement on the copper status and clinical deficiency in iranian sheep and goat. eight of one ‎year -old sanjabi sheep and markhoz goats housed in individual crates in animal house of razi ‎university. animals fed with the same basal diet which was supplemented with different levels of ‎minerals of mo, s and fe dur...