Blood inflammatory indices in goats around kidding

Short communication: genetic and environmental relationships between milk yield and kidding interval in dairy goats.

First-parity 305-d milk yield and intervals between first and second kiddings from 1975 through 2005 were analyzed to estimate genetic and environmental parameters for United States Alpine, LaMancha, Nubian, Saanen, and Toggenburg dairy goats. The data set included 43,612 does with first-parity milk yield and 25,863 does with first kidding interval. Parameters were estimated by REML using bivar...

Are you kidding, doc?

No more kidding around: restructuring non-medical childhood immunization exemptions to ensure public health protection.

Professor Silverman's article examines the complex challenges faced by U.S. policymakers attempting to balance the public health protections of mandatory childhood immunization programs with the legal, religious, philosophical, and practical concerns raised by permitting non-medical exemptions under the programs. The article begins with a discussion of the history of childhood immunization prog...

Changes in Maternal Blood Glucose and Plasma Non-Esterified Fatty Acid during Pregnancy and around Parturition in Twin and Single Fetus Bearing Crossbred Goats

The effects of fetal number (single or twin) on blood glucose and plasma NEFA during pregnancy and around parturition were studied on ten Alpine × Beetal crossbred goats in their first to third lactation. The animals were divided in-groups 1(carrying single fetus, n=4) and 2(twin fetus, n=6). The samples were drawn on day1 after estrus and then at 14 days interval (fortnight) for 10 fortnights....

Running head: TESTICULAR BLOOD FLOW IN GOATS

25 Although color Doppler ultrasonography has been used to evaluate testicular blood flow in 26 many species, very little has been done in goat. Eight male Shiba goats were exposed to a 27 single intramuscular injection of either gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH group; 28 1μg/kg BW) or human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG group; 25 IU/kg BW). Plasma 29 testosterone (T), estradiol (E2), and inh...