What is the difference between a transgenic and a cloned animal?
A transgenic animal simply has a trangene of interest within its genomic makeup. A cloned animal is developed through nuclear transfer, and typically has a common genetic profile with another animals. How long does it take for a goat to produce milk? Well, it takes them about seven months to get to sexual maturity, at which point you can get them pregnant again. Now you might get some early lactation off of an animal, but with a five-month gestation from getting a pregnancy started to the point of verifying that you have the product desired in the milk is typically about 18 months. How much milk is produced per goat per day? A goat milks about two liters a day as a typical nominal average figure for a goat. And let me put that in context as terms of what that means. The precise answer depends on exactly the protein that’s there and exactly the productivity of an animal, but just using nominal figures, about a hundred goats can produce about 300 kilograms of pharmaceutical product a yea
