Beekeeping is the maintenance of honey bee colonies in hives. Beekeeping is a viablebusiness that contributes income significantly to many rural households in Marigat,Baringo County. It provides a means of supplementary ...
In Kenya, it is widely cited that about 70-80% of milk production comes from smallholders, with the remainder from larger producers, estimated at about 5,000 (FAO, 2007). The estimates of the number of ...
Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) is a major source of income for many households.
Large amount of NTFPs are harvested and traded every year in Keiyo North District. Due
to limited information, inadequate cooperation ...
K.K Chauhan; P.K Rout; P.K Singh; A Mandal; H.N Singh; R Roya; S.K Singha(Elsevier, 2003-10)
Resistance to naturally acquired gastro-intestinal (GI) nematode parasite infections (predominantly Haemonchus) of 212 Jamunapari and 163 Barbari goats (does) were studied in different physiological stages, namely pregnant, ...
A total of 209 milk samples were collected from the udder halves of 178 native dairy ewes at 2 weeks after lambing until the 10th week postpartum. Those which were classified by bacterial culture and California Mastitis ...
Three experiments were conducted to evaluate sunflower seed meal (SFM) as a substitute for soybean meal (SBOM) in rations of fattening Awassi lambs and milking ewes. In the first experiment, 12 Awassi lambs were assigned ...
R Sheridan; A.V Ferreira; L.CHoffman(Elsevier, 2003-10)
Individual feed consumption, utilisation, digestion efficiency and growth of 32 Boer goat (BG) kids and 32 South African Mutton Merino (MM) lambs were investigated after weaning. Two pelleted diets (fed to 16 animals per ...
The purpose of this study was to evaluate under field conditions, the role that right management and vaccination against Escherichia coli plays in the prevention of neonatal kid diarrhoea. To meet this objective, a goat ...
Male kids (110) from six goat genotypes, i.e. Boer×Angora (BA), Boer×Feral (BF), Boer×Saanen (BS), Feral×Feral (FF), Saanen×Angora (SA) and Saanen×Feral (SF) and two slaughter weight groups, i.e. Capretto and Chevon ...
Ovulation pattern (rate and time) of 35 adult (age: 2–3.5 years, average body weight: 25–36 kg) normal cycling (nulliparous and parous) Jakhrana goats native to the semi-arid areas of India was investigated. Randomly ...
The purpose of this study was to examine developmental and dietary regulation of the potential for peptide transport via PepT1 and morphological changes in the gastrointestinal tract of lambs. A 2×4 factorial arrangement ...
Traditional rearing system based on pasture and hay supplementation was compared with rearing systems based on supplementation of barley based concentrate on Tuj lambs. Male Tuj lambs (n=18) were used in three groups with ...
In an attempt to identify factor(s) that influence in vitro development of preantral follicles (PFs) in sheep, small (40–60 μm in diameter) and large (61–100 μm in diameter) PFs were cultured for 6 days in tissue culture ...
Antigen recognition patterns (Western blotting) and lymphoproliferative response (local and peripheral) have been determined in lambs immunised and partially protected against haemonchosis with p26/23, a purified somatic ...
Hasan Ülker; Özdal Gökdal; Turgut Aygün; Ferda Karakuş; David M.DeAvila; Jerry J.Reeves(Elsevier, 2003-10)
Body growth, feedlot performance and carcass characteristics of ram lambs (n=16) immunized against luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) at 10 weeks of age with recombinant LHRH fusion proteins were investigated. ...
The prevalence of Babesia infection was studied in sheep and goats in Mashhad area from 1998 to 2000. A total of 391 sheep and 385 goats from 77 flocks were clinically examined for the presence of Babesia blood smears and ...
Effect of supplementation with non-conventional agro-industrial by-products on rumen fermentation pattern and microbial nitrogen supply was studied in sheep fed grass hay for 9 days. Diets consisted of hay alone (control); ...
A two by two factorial design including natural helminth infections (dewormed ‘D’ or not dewormed ‘ND’) and different levels of diet (basal ‘B’ or basal diet plus supplement ‘S’) was used to assess the effect of helminth ...
The effects of dosage of follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), vehicle and time of injection on ovulation rate and prolificacy were evaluated during the anestrous season. Ewes on four farms (n=445) were treated with a CIDR-G® ...