Although interest in beef-on-dairy breeding strategies is intensifying, little actually known of the performance differences between beef-sired male and female progeny dairy cows. The objective was therefore to use a large cross-sectional database up 1,389,670 animals investigate if existed generated from matings; focus on characteristics both producer (i.e., gestation length, calving performan...

This study investigated the prevalence of trypanosome infection in cattle and Red Sokoto (R.S) goats slaughtered at abattoirs Asaba, Delta State. 304 animals comprising 265 cattle, 39 R.S were examined. Blood was collected from jugular vein each animal into EDTA containers, placed cold boxes transported to Nigerian Institute for Trypanosomiasis Research (NITR) laboratory Asaba where standard de...

Indigenous weather forecasting is utilized by numerous pastoralist communities throughout the world to take pivotal decisions on how adapt volatile ecological conditions. In many pastoral in Africa, indigenous knowledge abetted pastoralists manage their livestock, reduce menace during adverse seasons and maximize prospects favorable This study intends assess relevance practices of knowledge, ra...

The body condition score (BCS) system is a subjective scoring method of evaluating the energy reserves of dairy animals to provide better understanding of biological relationships between body fat, milk production and reproduction. This method helps in adopting the optimum management practices to derive maximum production and maintain optimum health of the livestock. In this study, a new BCS sy...

In nine districts in the north of Khorasan province, in north-eastern Iran, a 5-year retrospective study was carried out to determine the prevalences, in livestock slaughtered in abattoirs, of the parasitic infections responsible for the condemnation of the animals' carcasses and viscera (and the economic importance of such infections in terms of lost meat and offal). Between 20 March 2005 and ...

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...

The effects of RPF on metabolites and reproductive genes in testes Malin ram was investigated. Twenty rams (36.6kg ± 5.57 kg bodyweight), were subjected to four dietary treatments; A: basal diet without rumen-protected fat (RPF), B; with 2% prilled fat, C; calcium salt D; canola oil. At the end experiment out five animals from each group slaughtered. excised for gene expression stud-ies. tested...

This study investigated the effects of age animal and days post-mortem (PM) on meat quality Boer goats. Twenty-four (24) wether goats two groups (2YO group: 2 years old 9MO: 6–9 months, with 12 animals/group) were slaughtered in a commercial processing plant. The [email protected] was estimated to be above 6 both higher (P < 0.01) values 2YO PM storage for 14 reduced shear force 0.01). goat mus...

Blastocystis is one of the most common emerging zoonotic parasites in humans and animals. This study aimed to determine molecular prevalence subtype cattle (Bos taurus). A total 150 fresh fecal samples were collected from slaughtered various slaughterhouses Kayseri Province, Central Anatolia. Genomic DNA was extracted all used PCR analyses small subunit ribosomal RNA (SSU rRNA) gene Blastocysti...