Thirty Angora (16+/-2kg initial body weight) and 20 Spanish doelings (19+/-2kg initial body weight), approximately 8 months of age, were used in an 10 week experiment to evaluate effects of dietary level of Leucaena leucocephala on body weight (BW) gain and fiber growth. The control diet (CS) included 9% dry matter (DM) of formaldehyde-treated casein; other diets consisted of 15, 30, 45 or 60% ...

M.B. Ferguson and B.A. McGregor PIRVic (Primary Industries Research Victoria), Department of Primary Industries, Private Bag 105, Hamilton, Victoria 3300, Australia PIRVic (Primary Industries Research Victoria) Department of Primary Industries, 475 Mickleham Rd, Attwood, Victoria 3049, Australia ________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract Genetic im...

Artificial neural networks (ANN) are increasingly used to solve many problems related to pattern recognition and object classification. In this paper, we report on a study using artificial neural networks to classify two kinds of animal fibers: merino and mohair. We have developed two different models, one extracting nine scale parameters with image processing, and the other using an unsupervis...

The Goat Registration System has been developed since 1991 and today 227 Angora herds are on the system, including 25 Swedish and 7 Norwegian herds. The Nordic Angora goat population consists of many small herds (a total of 4,277 Angoras). This is one of the reasons why we have developed a genetic indexation system over the past 2 years, enabling us to compare animals from different herds and t...

Trends in Textile Engineering & Fashion Technology Mohair Fiber: Sustainability Starts at the Farm-Know your Fashion; Know Where it Comes from Weiss Marcia1, Faust Marie-Eve2, Bellemare Jocelyn3* and Fontaine Richard4 1Department of Design, Thomas Jefferson University, MFA Fibers, Savannah College Art Design (SCAD), USA 2Department Strategy, Social Environmental Responsibility, School Business ...