Early Sexual Experience Fails to Enhance Sexual Performance in Male Goats

Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 718-720

  Price, E O ^a   Borgwardt, R ^a   Orihuela, A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Dir Gen Educacion Tecnologica A   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Goats; Reproduction; Sexual behavior

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EJACULATION; ESTRUS; FEMALE; GOAT; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL MATURATION;

ANIMALS; EJACULATION; ESTRUS; FEMALE; GOATS; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SEXUAL MATURATION;

EID: 0032011738     PISSN: 00218812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/1998.763718x     Document Type: Article

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