limit coverage, and they reap billions in excessive salaries, profits, and bonuses. Look at the facts: United Health earned $2.9 billion last year. WellPoint reported profits of $2.5 billion. For CEO pay, United Health Group’s Stephen Hemsley made $3.2 million. WellPoint’s Angela Braly made $9.8 million. It doesn’t stop there. Former United Health Group’s CEO, Bill McGuire, left his job in 2006...

The objective of this experiment was to determine the effect of a 5-day progesterone priming prior to a GnRH-PGF2alpha treatment on reproductive performance of anestrous goats. Thirty-six Mountain Black goats were randomly assigned in a 2 x 2 factorial arrangement and were administered intravaginally on day -12, either with 300 mg progesterone inserts (CGPE and CGP) or with 0 mg progesterone (G...

This study examined the effects of genetic and some non-genetic factors on total milk yield (TMY), test-day (TDM), pre-weaning (PRMY), post-weaning (POMY) using a 1167 lactation records (Damascus) does over years 1998 to 2001 at Al-Walla Agricultural Research Station, Ministry Agriculture. The General Linear Model (GLM) was employed analyze data. TMY, TDM, PRMY, POMY had respective overall aver...

In this study, breeding objective traits were identified, and alternative schemes simulated evaluated for two goat populations. The as follows: body size, twinning ability kidding interval (KI) Arab goats mothering Oromo goats. selection criteria six-month weight (6mw, kg), litter size at birth (LSB), weaning (LSW) KI (days). (1) Scheme 1: 2 years of buck use 10% proportion, (2) 2: 15% (3) 3: 3...

Dairy goat kid rearing is the foundation of future milk production, yet little known on this topic. References available to producers are limited, making it more difficult for dairy farms reach their full production potential. This review paper aimed identify current recommendations practices intensive systems and assess whether different were based scientific literature. Recommendations practi...