December 2007

Reproductive fitness of stressed female broodstock of Clarias gariepinus (Burchell, 1809)

Reproductive fitness of female brood stock of Clarias gariepinus was determined using three different stress conditions; confinement and starvation for 12 hours before hormone injection; keeping fish out of water after hormone treatment (Latency period) and transportation. Broodstock of eight months old with an average weight ranging between 450 and 750 g were used for the experiment. There was no significant...

Author(s): Aiyelari, T. A., Adebayo, I. A. and Osiyemi, A. S.

December 2007

Developmental competence, birth and survival of lambs following transfer of twin or triple embryos of dwarf size prolific donor into large size non-prolific recipient sheep

The objective of the present study was to assess the embryo survival and development of progeny following transfer of either 2 or 3 embryos derived from dwarf size prolific Garole sheep into non-prolific large size Awassi x Malpura crossbred recipient ewes. Embryos were collected from donor ewes following induction of superovulation using FSH (5.4 mg Ovagen) and PMSG (200 IU) regimen. Estrus was synchronized in donor...

Author(s): S. M. K. Naqvi, A. Joshi, D. Kumar, R. Gulyani, V. P Maurya, S. Saha,J. P. Mittaland V. K. Singh

December 2007

The impact of obesity on serum biochemical components

    Two experiments were conducted separately for this study, in each experiment genetically fat and lean chickens were selected and reared under the same environment and management system. The effect of breed on body weight and abdominal fat weight were found to be significant (P < 0.05). Genetically fat and lean chickens were significantly differed...

Author(s): Wang K. H.  and Musa H. H.