Bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV) is an economically important pathogen of cattle worldwide. Infection of a pregnant animal may lead to persistent infection of the foetus and birth of a persistently infected (PI) calf that sheds the virus throughout its life. However, BVD viruses are not strictly species specific. BVDV has been isolated from many domesticated and wild ruminants. This is of pr...

Kid kidney cells form less than 2 months of age were grown, 80% confluent monolayers were obtained after 10-12 days. Live attenuated goat pox virus vaccine (Gorgan 55, Iranian) was used to infect the confluent monolayers. Eighty percent cytopethic effect (CPE) was obtained on day 5 of virus inoculation. TCID50 calculated for the pool virus was 10 / ml. Vaccine was found free from any bacterial ...

A two-day-old female Toggenburg goat with thoracic ectopia cordis (EC) was diagnosed via radiography and computed tomography. The goat was born with EC, defects of the sternum and a supra-umbilical abdominal wall, but without the presence of Cantrell's syndrome. Necropsy and histopathological findings indicated the affected kid had malformation of the heart with an enlarged left ventricle. The ...

A West African dwarf goat was presented to the Veterinary Teaching Hospital, University of Nigeria with primary complaint swollen abdomen and straining. Upon examination, observed be enlarged a fetus can felt on abdominal ballottement. Presence hernia ring confirmed caudal ventral area before umblicus. Caesarean section consequent herniorrhaphy adopted correct thehernia. Three kid goats were de...

to evaluate the effects of garlic on some blood metabolites in pre-partum dairy goats, the ration was supplemented with raw garlic at the doses of 0, 30, 50 and 70 g kg-1 of dry matter (dm) in eight pregnant mahabadi breed goats (59 ± 1 kg initial live weight) in a replicated latin square design during the last two months of pregnancy. each experimental period lasted 14 days with the first 12 d...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the inclusion vegetable oils in goat kid diets on performance, carcass traits, and meat composition, quality, fatty acid profile. Forty-eight Anglo Nubian kids were evaluated a completely randomized experimental design with four treatments, namely, control diet including 2.5% canola, sunflower, or soybean oils. animals slaughtered at 30 kg live weight...

The schistosomus reflexus (SR) etymologically refers to an abdominal and or thoracic cleft with eventration of viscera. This pathology is a rare lethal congenital syndrome in calves, lambs, goat kids. condition likely caused by various factors such as endocrine, metabolic, hereditary, teratogenic the first third gestation, leading disorders embryonic development. In this report, 3-year-old fema...

BACKGROUND Longevity is the amount of time breeding females stay active in a herd by avoiding death or culling because of illness or reproductive failure. This is a trait of economic relevance in commercial small ruminant breeding herds as it affects lifetime reproductive output. The purpose of this study was to determine if breed of meat goat influences breeding doe survival rates and cumulati...

Boer, Kiko, and Spanish meat goats were semi-intensively managed in a complete 3-breed diallel mating scheme to evaluate genetic effects on preweaning kid performance. Over a 6-yr period, 1,547 kids were born in March and May with 1,173 kids raised by their dams to weaning at 3 mo of age. March-born kids were lighter (P < 0.01) at birth, but had greater (P < 0.01) preweaning ADG and survival ra...