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Progesterona en suero sanguíneo y heces ABSTRACT Gutiérrez-Loera MC, Escobar-Medina FJ, Rincón-Delgado RM, <strong>de</strong> la Colina-Flores F. Serum and feces progesterone concentration in active sexually goats. Serum and feces progesterone concentration were measured in four female goats in or<strong>de</strong>r to estimate the <strong>de</strong>gree of association between these two measurements during the mating season. Blood samples were collected daily for twenty days. Resulting correlation coefficients were 0.79 (P 0.05) and 0.63 (P < 0.05) for each goat, respectively. Overall correlation coefficient was 0.73 and significantly different from zero (P