**Meet the editor**

Prof. Dr. Sándor Kukovics spent 40 years in Research Institute for Animal Breeding and Nutrition, Herceghalom, Hungary, being responsible for the small ruminant sector. Besides research work, he has been taking part in under- and further education of various universities. Since 1996, he has worked as the president of the Hungarian Sheep and Goat Dairying Public Utility Asso-

ciation. He has been the executive manager of Sheep and Goat Products' Board and Inter-Professional Association since 2010. Since 2015, he has been the vice president of the EU Copa-Cogeca Working Party on Sheep and Goats and a board member of the International Goat Association since 2016. As an expert, he has been taking part in the activities of several special groups in the European Union working with small ruminants since 2004.

Contents

**Preface IX**

Mulumebet Worku

**African Goats 19**

**Different? 39**

Chapter 5 **Reproduction in Goats 87**

**Male Goats 107**

and Hugo Bernal Barragán

Chapter 4 **Iodine Deficiency in Goats 75** Rajinder Kumar Bhardwaj

Chapter 1 **Molecular Genetics and Genome Biology of Goats 3**

Chapter 2 **The Development and Genetic Improvement of South**

Carina Visser and Este van Marle‐Köster

Chapter 3 **Rate of Passage of Digesta in Ruminants; Are Goats**

Chapter 6 **Recent Advances in Research on the Hormone INSL3 in**

Mehluli Moyo and Ignatius V. Nsahlai

Kingsley Ekwemalor, Sarah Adjei-Fremah, Emmanuel Asiamah and

Fernando Sánchez Dávila, Alejandro Sergio del Bosque González

Tetsuya Kohsaka, Siqin , Itaru Minagawa and Hiroshi Sasada

**Section 1 Genetics 1**

**Section 2 Nutrition 37**

**Section 3 Reproduction 85**
