78 Ghezel and 76 Mehraban sheep were used to evaluate the effect of fat-tail docking on reproductive performance. Within two days after birth the tails of 32 Ghezel female lambs and 28 Mehraban female lambs were docked using a tight rubber ring. The lambs were allowed to reproduce for three lambing opportunities and their reproductive performances were evaluated. The effect of docking on the fe...

background pediculosis and scabies are infectious diseases that can spread easily in overcrowded places, like prisons. the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of these diseases in ghezel hesar prison (a male prison). materials and methods for this descriptive study, 1404 prisoners in ghezel hesar prison were included. the prisoners were evaluated clinically by two experienced derm...

one hundred and seventy four ghezel and 130 mehraban weaned male lambs were utilized to study the effect of on post weaning growth on slaughter weight and carcass traits. the lambs in each breed were randomly assigned to predetermined slaughter weight groups of 30, 40 or 50 kg and were so far fattened as to reach their assigned slaughter weights. the average post weaning daily gain was estimate...

the aim of this study was to determine the effect of ewe breed on the reaction time and semencharacteristics in the ram. for this purpose, from the native sheep breeds in iran, seven lory rams and fourewes (two lory and two ghezel breeds) were selected. seven rams were individually subjected to 4 weeklytrials in which one of the following two treatments was applied alternately. all of rams were...

This survey was carried out to determine the infection rate of Coenurus cerebralis in Urmia abattoir, West Azerbaijan, Iran. A total of 402 sheep heads were examined and the number of C. cerebralis cysts per each head was recorded. Thirty three sheep heads were examined each month during 12 months from 2006 to 2007. Of 402 heads, a number of 75 heads (18.65%) were infected with C. cerebralis. T...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of dilution rate and holding time on various motility parameters using computer-assisted sperm analysis (CASA). The semen samples were collected from three Ghezel rams. Samples were diluted in seminal plasma (SP), phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) containing 1% bovine serum albumin (BSA) and Bioexcell. The motility parameters that computed and rec...

in this study, the amount of total phenol, chlorogenic acid, catechin, quercetin, phloridzin, cyanidin and antioxidant activity of apple (malus domestica) skin and flesh of six iranian cultivars, including: ‘golab kohanz’, ‘sib torsh dirras’, ‘ghara yapragh’, ‘torkman’, ‘ghezel alma’ and ‘abbasi mashhad’, and four commercial cultivars including: ‘golden delicious’, ‘red delicious’, ‘braeburn’ a...