Brazilian Northeast is a potentially good skin producer region due to its livestock farming activities which include more than 90% national goat cense. This exceptional situation with plenty raw material at hand, enables ...

An analysis was made of the selective use of three fodder-groups (grass, woody species and acorns) by a herd of dairy goats grazed semiextensively in an area of the Sierra Norte in the province of Seville (Spain). The ...

El objetivo del presente trabajo fue revisar el consumo de materia seca y las necesidades nutritivas de cabras lecheras de reposición estabuladas para establecer límites nutricionales aplicables a la formulación de dietas ...

An analysis was made of the behaviour of a herd of dairy goats over a day of grazing. The time spent in grazing, the distance covered over one day and the speed at which that distance was covered were studied. Results ...

A computer program, developed in Clipper, for the management of the genealogical and productive information from the Canary Goat Group, is described. The two first sections of this program are planned for the males and ...

Four adaptations of Fleischmann"s method, utilized for the calculus of accumulated milk production at complete lactation are compared. 551 lactations of the Florida breed goat were employed from the first to the tenth ...

The foraging strategy of grazing dairy goat (Florida breed), in mediterranean pastures of Sierra Norte of Sevilla (Spain), was studied. Woody species account for 19 p. 100 of goat selection in autumn-winter, 25 p. 100 in ...

Forty-eight male and 48 female Florida Sevillana kids, from twin births, were slaughtered al 30,45 and 60 days. Half of each group were raised with maternal milk and the other with milk replacer. They were slaughtered, ...