Data on growth and milk production from farm records of a community based goat improvement project in Meru Central and South districts in the Eastern Highlands of Kenya were analysed to determine growth parameters and milk production potential of Toggenburg goats and their crosses with local goats. Least Squares means and their standard errors for birthweight (kg), were 3.6 ± 0.16, 3.2 ± 0.19, ...

Abstract In Indonesia and some southeast Asian countries, the number of goats raised for milk production is growing. these goat second most produced consumed after cow milk. Indonesia, dairy goats’ development promising, but farming marketing products still scattered unstructured. The from varieties breeds, including Peranakan Etawa, Saanen, Nubian, their crosses. Goat has unique distinct chara...

Real-time quantitative PCR (qRT-PCR) is one of the important methods for investigating the changes in mRNA expression levels in cells and tissues. Selection of the proper reference genes is very important when calibrating the results of real-time quantitative PCR. Studies on the selection of reference genes in goat tissues are limited, despite the economic importance of their meat and dairy pro...