Do Thi Thanh Van, 2006. Some animal and feed factors affecting feed intake, behaviour and performance of small ruminants. Doctor’s dissertation. ISSN 1652-6880, ISBN 91-576-7081-1 The overall objective of this thesis was to assess the effect of some animal and feed factors on feed intake, behaviour and performance of small ruminants. The experiments were carried out at the Goat and Rabbit Resea...

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...

________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract The data used for this study were collected in 12 different Angora goat studs from 2000 to 2004. Data collected on 17534 kids born alive in the different studs were included in the analyses. Average pre-weaning mortality rate was 11.5% and ranged from 8.6% to 16.5% (of the 17534 kids born alive, 2018 kids ...

In this study it was evaluated the environmental effects on body weights of goat kids from birth to 5 months of age of local goat population in Tunisia. Except for birth weight, individual records were adjusted for standard ages (1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 months) using either extrapola on or interpolation on field data. Data were analyzed by SNK (α = 0.05) means comparison test and GLM procedure. The ki...

A growth and digestibility study was conducted using Osmanabadi goat male kids by feeding complete diets in the form of mash or expander extruded pellets containing different levels of red gram (Cajanus cajan) straw (RGS). Two iso-nitrogenous complete diets were prepared by incorporating RGS at 35% and 50% levels. Half the quantity of each complete mash feed was then converted into pellets thro...

Alpine and Damascus goats were crossbred in a private goat farm established Adana that engaged raising order to develop genotype will give more milk the hot humid climate summer of Çukurova region. In this study, growth characteristics between birth weaning kids compared with kids. The animal material for study consisted 136 head pure 32 as well their fed dams' (average 0.70 litre / day) first ...

A study was conducted to evaluate the effects of energy and protein levels of maternal diets on growth, some blood parameters, health, and performance of baby goat kids at first month of life. On 95 d after successful mating, 28 synchronized singleton pregnant Sistani goats were randomly allocated to four treatments including 1) low protein and low energy (LPLE), 2) high protein and low energy ...

SIMPLE SUMMARYMuscle fibres have an important impact on meat quality. There are different types of skeletal muscle fibres, mainly oxidative and glycolytic. The present study showed that dairy breeds goat kids raised with milk replacer had less than their dams. In addition, the measured in this were smaller