A survey on the prevalence of liver fluke in sheep and goat slaughtered at abattoir in Zaria is conducted. A total of 247 animals is slaughtered and picked randomly in abattoir within Zaria which undergoes examination to determine the presence of liver fluke. The samples were examined between the periods of three month on daily basis. The bile samples of the sheep and goat were analyzed using t...

The discovery of ghrelin O-acyltransferase (GOAT) opens the way to the design of drugs that block the attachment of an octanoyl group to the appetite-stimulating peptide hormone ghrelin, potentially preventing obesity. Here, we develop a biochemical assay that uses membranes from insect cells infected with baculovirus encoding mouse GOAT. The GOAT-containing membranes transferred the [(3)H]octa...

An antibody population which reacts only with human sickle cell hemoglobin (HbS) and not with normal human hemoglobin, has been isolated from goat, sheep, and guinea pig antisera. These antibody populations termed anti-Val (Val), isolated from an individual goat (no. 6) and sheep (no. 26) have been used to elicit anti-idiotypic responses in rabbits. These anti-idiotypic sera were used to study ...

Goat research in the United States has increased but at a rate less than that in production. Research on goat meat includes nutritional quality, packaging, color, sensory characteristics, and preslaughter management. Goat skins have value for leather, but quality of goat leather has not been extensively studied. Research in the production, quality, antibiotic residues, and sensory characteristi...

Albanian farmers have a long tradition in goat farming. Recently, several studies were carried out to determine genetic diversity of local goat populations, using molecular markers such as SNP (Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms), microsatellites and AFLP (Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism). In the present study 77 mtDNA D-loop sequences from six different goat breeds were analysed. The resul...

Goat milk has been a rich source of proteins. The distinctive composition of goat milk, combined with its nutritional value, is linked to the liberation of protein fragments during digestion or technological processing, which are able to perform various biological activities. This has gain more attention due to its broad applications in the food, drug, and various other industries. Thus, here w...

This study aimed to determine the qualitative performance of female Rambon goat (Ettawa Grade x Kacang goat) at post-weaning. reaserch was conducted in January - February 2020 Dusun V Sungai Langka village, Gedong Tataan district, Pesawaran regency, Lampung. The research used a survey method with case Observation on post-weaning aged 4 months 1 year included color head, body, legs, tail, ears, ...

Meat goat enterprise efficiency was estimated using an input distance function (IDF) by applying stochastic production frontier techniques for the southeastern U.S. region. We found increasing returns to scale and scope economies for southeastern U.S. meat goat enterprises. Mean technical efficiency was 0.81. Our results suggest southeastern U.S. meat goat enterprises can be scale efficient if ...

The Creole goat is a local meat breed well adapted to the tropical environment of Guadeloupe, a French island in the Caribbean. A survey of 47 goat farmers was conducted in May 2008 to describe the Guadeloupean goat farming systems. It was the preliminary step for the implementation of a breeding programme for Creole goats. Farmers had 31 does on average. A small number (4%) kept only Creole go...

Two clones that contain goat growth hormone (gGH) genes were isolated from goat genomic library using goat growth hormone cDNA as a probe. One clone CgGH contained gGH1 gene, and another clone, EgGH, contained gGH2 and gGH3 genes. The clone EgGH contained 491 bp inserted sequence, just upstream of the gGH3 gene, which was not present in the clone CgGH. From the sequencing data of the flanking r...