in this study, genetic parameters and (co)variance components were estimated for weights at birth, 3, 6, 9, 12, 24 months, daily weight gain from birth to 3 months and daily weight gain from 3 month to 12 month, keliber ratio from birth to 3 months and keliber ratio from 3 to 12 month, and production of fleece for south khorasan goats at sarbisheh station over a period of 16 years (1996–2012). ...

The aim of study was to determine the energy requirements for maintenance and growth of forty-one Saanen, intact male kids with initial body weight (BW) of 5.12±0.19 kg. The baseline (BL) group consisted of eight kids averaging 5.46±0.18 kg BW. An intermediate group consisted of six kids, fed for ad libitum intake, that were slaughtered when they reached an average BW of 12.9±0.29 kg. The remai...

Touchscreen interactions are increasingly more commonplace with the mainstream adoption of devices like the iPad and iPhone. Kids are using their parents’ devices for entertainment, learning, and discovery, but the interactions have not always been designed with kids in mind. In this paper we discuss the results of our explorations of differences between children and adults on a dataset of touc...

The intraperitoneal route was explored both as an alternative to the intravenous route for the vaccination of sheep and goat kids against heartwater and for the administration of an antibiotic to animals suffering from the disease. Only 8 (57%) of the 14 adult sheep, and none of the 7 goat kids, were found to be immune after intraperitoneal vaccination with infective blood. However, this route ...

OBJECTIVE To develop a questionnaire (ABILOCO-Kids) based on the Rasch measurement model that assesses locomotion ability in children with cerebral palsy. DESIGN Prospective study and questionnaire development. SUBJECTS A total of 113 children with cerebral palsy (10 (standard deviation 2.5) years old). METHODS A 41-item questionnaire was developed based on existing scales and on the clin...

__________________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract Saanen milk goats were crossed with South African Indigenous goats to evaluate productivity, milk production and disease incidence, and to assess their suitability for milk production by small-scale farmers and households in developing areas. Goat kids were separated from their mothers at one wee...

Launched in January 2001 by the Santa Clara County Children’s Health Initiative (CHI), the Healthy Kids program provides health insurance coverage to over 13,000 children in the county with household incomes up to 300 percent of the federal poverty level ($62,000 for a family of four) who are ineligible for the two major state insurance programs in California, Medi-Cal and Healthy Families. The...