This study provides some comprehensive osteometric and morphologic descriptions of the skull region of the Markhoz goat. Totally, 17 osteometric parameters of eight skulls of Markhoz goat were measured and expressed as mean ± SD. A skull length of 18.67 ± 0.66, a cranial length of 11.1 ± 0.38, a facial length of 10.23 ± 0.76, a skull index of 47.77 ± 1.96, a cranial index of 54.04 ± 2.29, a fac...

The effect of subcutaneous injections of vitamin C on the seminal characteristics of Markhoz bucks (2–4-year-old) was studied. The bucks, trained to serve an artificial vagina, were randomly allotted into three equal groups (n = 4) and received daily either zero (1 mL normal saline; control group), or 20 (VitC20 group) or 40 (VitC40 group) mg per kg body weight vitamin C from July 06, 2006 to O...

Cryopreservation protocols induce partially irreversible damage to mammalian sperm plasma membranes. Previous studies have indicated that adding cholesterol to the plasma membrane, as cholesterol-loaded-cyclodextrins, improves cryosurvival of sperm. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine if treating sperm of Markhoz bucks with cholesterol-loaded-cyclodextrins (CLC) (0, 0.75, 1.5,...

the effect of subcutaneous injections of vitamin c on the seminal characteristics of markhoz bucks (2–4-year-old) was studied. the bucks, trained to serve an artificial vagina, were randomly allotted into three equal groups (n = 4) and received daily either zero (1 ml normal saline; control group), or 20 (vitc20 group) or 40 (vitc40 group) mg per kg body weight vitamin c from july 06, 2006 to o...

BMP15 and GDF9 are two oogenesis specific genes play a pivotal role in female fertility in mammals and potential for improvement of prolificacy in marker-assisted selection. The aim of present research was to investigate the variation and association between BMP15 and GDF9 polymorphism and litter size in Markhoz goats. The sequence variability of the different amplified fragments utilized for g...

this experiment was carried out to investigate the effect of adaptation period to oak leave's tannin on rumen ph and ammonia, rumen microbial population, gas production and dry matter true digestibility (ivtdmd) in alamout goat’s rumen (with no previous history of oak leaf consumption) compared with markhoz goat (with previous history of oak leaf consumption). the goats were fed either oak...

This study was conducted to assess the possible effects of zinc oxide (ZnO) and nano zinc oxide(nZnO) on growth performance as well as the level of Ca, P, Fe, Cu and Zn in Markhoz goat kidsblood samples. Thirty 5-6 months male Markhoz goat kids were supplemented with 22.12 mg ofZn/ kg DM as basal diet for 70 days. Zinc was administered at daily doses of zero, 20 and 40ppm in ZnO group , and 20 ...