Daily gain, daily feed intake, feed per unit of gain, serum Ca, serum P, serum Mg, structural soundness scores, foot pad scores, metacarpal breaking force and metacarpal ash values from five Ca P trials with barrows, gilts or boars were subjected by sex in each trial to multivariate analysis of variance. Correlation coefficients were obtained from the residual sums of squares and sum of product...

Records on four bulls and 96 of their progeny born from 2005 to 2011 with pedigree information were used to estimate the impact of bull performance on progeny early growth and the genetic relationships between traits of bull and their progeny. Traits included in this study were metabolic body weight, feed intake and residual feed intake (RFI) for bull performance and birth weight and average da...

Upazila Livestock Office, Chirirbandar, Dinajpur, Bangladesh A beef breed development project was carried out in the Department of Livestock Services (DLS) in 2009 in selected areas of Bangladesh. Under this project, semen of Brahman bulls were imported from the USA and used to inseminate indigenous cows to produce graded calves. The present study was undertaken to select graded Brahman bulls o...

twenty male raini goats with an average live weight of 30 ± 2.5 kg and 18 month of age. ,were used in a completely randomized design with 4 experimental diets and 5 replications to study effect of different levels by-pass(udp) protein(2.75, 4.86, 5.91 and 6.97 percent in dry matter) on growth and carcass characteristics. metabolismable energy (me) level of the all diets were similar (10.04 mj m...

this experiment was conducted using 172 male lambs of ghezel and mehraban breeds for two periods of 60 and 80 days. two systems of fattening were studied. the first group of lambs entered feedlot boxes immediately after weaning (spring) but the second group being fed on pasture, entered the experiment approximately 4 months later (autumn). fattening periods were 60 and 80 days. the average wean...

association of genetic polymorphism in the calpastatin (cast) gene with average daily gain was examined in iranian purebred kurdi sheep. the genotypes for cast were determined by the pcr-sscp method. blood samples were collected from 84 purebred kurdi sheep belonging to the kurdi breeding station located in the khorasan province, north-east of iran. extraction of genomic dna was based on the gu...

background: given the importance of birth weight and the effects of anthropometric indices and socioeconomic status on it, this study was conducted to assess birth weight and its related factors among infants born in the hospitals of ahwaz jondishapour university. methods: this cross-sectional study was carried out on 269 newly born babies and their mothers in hospitals of ahwaz jondishapour un...