Some years ago Collias1 reported a study on maternal-filial bonds in goats in which he suggested that events transpiring during a brief post partum period were particularly important. As part of our studies of the ontogenesis of social behavior, we have sought to subject the putative importance of this period to a further analysis, with special attention to its precise boundaries (if any) and t...

Case Description- Hirudiniasis in the subglossal area is very rare. We describe an Iranian cross-breed goat-kid with two leeches’ infestation in his sublingual area. Clinical Findings -The animal was referred to the veterinary clinic with a history of anorexia, teeth grinding and bleeding from the mouth. In clinical examination of the mouth, two leeches observed which attached to sublingual re...

Statistical models, such as Markov Chains, have been recently studied in the context of procedural content generation (PCG). These models can capture statistical regularities of a set of training data and use them to sample new content. However, these techniques assume the existence of sufficient training data with which to train the models. In this paper we study the setting in which we might ...

in this research, in order to describe milk production traits lactation mahabadi goat breed, seven statistical functions were fitted using 1665 milk production traits records and 833 body weight records. the milk production traits were milk yield, fat percent, fat yield, protein percent, protein yield, lactose percent and snf percent. these records have been recorded on 123 goats during years o...

A total of 25 preruminant Granadina breed goats were used. They were bottle-fed goat milk ad libitum from postnatal day 3 to 28. Until the age of 3 d, kids were fed colostrum. Body weight, pancreas weight, total protein concentration, enzyme activities in pancreatic tissue and hormone concentrations (cortisol, gastrin, T3 and T4) were determined at 3, 7, 14, 21 and 28 d of age. Our results show...

Reproductive performance of 20 pregnant ewes and does West African Dwarf breeds at village level in Ogun State, Nigeria were compare a study which lasted for 8 months. Litter size was 1.50 while that 1.85. the number males produced by two species out-numbered females. However, multiple birth higher goat sheep. Results weights body weight lambs kids 3 month age significantly different (P < 0....

There is a widespread conviction that people distinguish two kinds of acts: on the one hand, acts that are generalisably wrong because they go against universal principles of harm, justice, or rights; on the other hand, acts that are variably right or wrong depending on the social context. In this paper we criticise existing methods that measure generalisability. We report new findings indicati...

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 ...

monocephalus thoracopagus is a kind of attached symmetrical twin in which two nearly complete individuals joined front-to-front in the thoracic region with a single head, fused chests, one or two hearts and two lower bodies. a died female kid goat with one head, four ears, four paired limbs and two more or less complete body was referred to the veterinary faculty of the shahid bahonar universit...