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Assessing Environmental Effects upon Modeling the Individual Lactation Curve of a Local Goat Population in a Pastoral System.
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- Genetic Determinants of Milk Production Phenotypes in Dairy Goats: A Review.Veterinary sciences · 2026Review
- Evaluations of milk yield, udder and teat morphometric traits of lactating goats reared in pastoral lowlands of the Bale zone, Ethiopia.Veterinary and animal science · 2025Article
- Determining the best predictive function to mathematically describe the lactation curve of primiparous Murcia does in Iran.Tropical animal health and production · 2025Article
- Factors Affecting the Milk Production Traits and Lactation Curve of the Indigenous River Buffalo Populations in Bangladesh.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
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Abstract
The present study aims to use Wood's model to determine the parameters of individual lactation curves in a local goat population and their factors of variation under a pastoral system. A total of 137,927 records from 432 local goats were collected to assess the impact of litter size, year and month of kidding, herd and the age of the dam on lactation curve parameters. Wood's model parameters were estimated using non-linear regression, and individual curves were fitted. The characteristics of the lactation curves were computed. The initial yield (A), rate of increase (B) and rate of decline (C) parameters in Wood's model for local goats were 730 g, 0.26 and 0.09 respectively. The values of peak milk production (PP), peak date (PD) and persistency (PC) were 931.88 g/d, 23.39 days and 91.50%, respectively. Persistence was higher in goats with simple births, while peak production increased by around 0.3 kg for each additional kid. The curve parameters "A" and "C" differed according to the herd and month of kidding (
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