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In a series of experiments the interaction between nutrition and energy- and nitrogen metabolism of West African Dwarf goats, infected with trypanosomes was studied. Animals were injected with trypanosomes, and feed intake, energy and nitrogen balance and blood metabolites and hormones were measu...

Seasonal effect of bush canopy on dietary selection and nutrition of goats was evaluated at Kiboko, south-central Kenya from June through November, 1982. Three mature esophageally fistulated East-African goats were used in the study on a one day graze, 28-30 day rest cycle. Treatment paddocks (2....

Characterization is important in genetic resources conservation and utilization, but few information about indigenous livestock types are available. In the present study data of 22,934 goats were collected by a rapid survey method to characterize goats of Eritrea. Northern and Western Ethiopia. M...

The investigation of voluntary feed intake (VFI) and nitrogen retention (NRET) during parasitic infections in small ruminants is the central theme of this thesis. An attempt was made to examine the effects of trypanosomiasis on feed intake, digestibility, nitrogen retention and animal products. I...

The research described in this thesis was carried out to investigate the phenotypic basis of resistance to diminazene (Berenil R) in Trypanosoma congolense. Earlier work has shown that, in both goats and mice, the majority of T. congolense trypanosomes which reappear following treatment with dimi...

Approximately 25 % of the world’s land surface support about 20 million households or about 180–200 million people in pastoral areas (Degen, 2007). Pastoral production systems are low external input systems that Kaufmann (2007) characterizes as probabilistic ra...