The study was carried out to document the production system of indigenous Woyto-Guji goats and major limitations goat reared in two districts (Nyangatom Maale) South Omo, Ethiopia. Stepwise purposive followed by a random sampling method used select respondents. Based on result, households Nyangatom district preferred rear cattle, sheep less number poultry when compared those residing Maale dist...

Recent advances in reproductive endocrinology and physiology of mammals, molecular biology and genetic engineering have enhanced the expansion of the field of animal reproductive biotechnology. To date, many reproductive techniques have been applied in livestock animals such as cattle, sheep and pigs. Nevertheless, the application of such techniques is still limited in goat. This paper aims to ...

The c-kit protein plays a major role in the regulation of germ cell development. Its expression and distribution in rodent testes have been widely reported. However, research regarding c-kit expression in domestic animals is scarce, and the expression pattern and distribution of c-kit in germ cells have not been clearly defined. In this study, a specific antigenic region for goat c-kit was desi...

Majority of selected goat farmers were landless and marginal (69%) with an annual average income of Rs.I9200.00. However, average income of small and medium goat farmers were about Rs.25500.00.Ownership pattern of goats revealed that about 78% goats were owned by the landless and marginal farmers. Majority of the farmers had Barbari/Barbari type goats (54%) followed by non-descript (43%) and Si...

The aim of the pilot study was to evaluate slaughter characteristics and carcass composition of indigenous long fat tailed sheep and Small East African goats purchased from the auction markets slaughtered at 1.5 to 2 yrs of age and 20 kg to 25 kg live weight. The animals were slaughtered according to halal standard procedures. The left half carcasses were jointed into eight wholesale joints, an...

This paper presents a first genetic linkage map of the goat genome. Primers derived from the flanking sequences of 612 bovine, ovine and goat microsatellite markers were gathered and tested for amplification with goat DNA under standardized PCR conditions. This screen made it possible to choose a set of 55 polymorphic markers that can be used in the three species and to define a panel of 223 mi...

BACKGROUND Liaoning cashmere goat is a famous goat breed for cashmere wool. In order to increase the transcriptome data and accelerate genetic improvement for this breed, we performed de novo transcriptome sequencing to generate the first expressed sequence tag dataset for the Liaoning cashmere goat, using next-generation sequencing technology. RESULTS Transcriptome sequencing of Liaoning cas...