The body composition and tissue distribution of Australian feral goats

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My particular thanks are due to my supervisor, Dr.W.A.Pattie for his encouragement and advice throught the study and for support in many forms during the experimental preparation of the thesis. work and his the I would like to thank Dr.D.D. Charles for his advice in study of body and carcase composition, and Mr.D.Baker for advice on the technical work involved in carcase dissection. the his I would also like to thank Dr.B.J.Restall and Dr.A.G.Kaiser for making available the goats from their experiments. Mr.A.W.Beattie statistical grateful. gave me considerable advice on the analysis of data from this study for which I am very My period of study was made possible by the grant of Colombo Plan scholarship by the Australian Development Assistance Bureau which is gratefully acknowledged. a Finally, I would like to thank my wife, Wiwit and Sidik Atih and children for their encouragement during the study and their patience while being left at home.