The importance of the study of bovine central nervous diseases has increased worldwide since the appearance of the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), in the middle of the decade of 1980. The recognition of a new variant of the Creutzfeldt Jacob (human disease related to the BSE) has enhanced the economy and public health importance in the world. Due to this fact, international sanitary aut...

The current review focuses on characterization and conservation efforts vital for the development of breeding programmes for indigenous beef cattle genetic resources in Southern Africa. Indigenous African cattle breeds were identified and characterized using information from refereed journals, conference papers and research reports. Results of this current review reviewed that smallholder beef ...

Livestock keepers in southwestern Burkina Faso hold the local Lobi taurine breed, Zebu cattle, and their crosses. Some communities region have begun to implement community-based cattle breeding programs (CBBPs), which involve animal tagging recording and, potentially, also bull sharing. Based on hypothesis that participation of livestock CBBPs depends attitudes towards these programs, we used q...

The aim was to find out the incidence of retention placenta in 175 zebu cattle with regard age, body condition score (BCS), parity, and feeding system. Pretested questionnaire used for collecting information. overall manually removed 10.3%. Age, system had significant effect (P<0.05) on manual removal placenta. parity not significant. highest 14.3%, 16%, 11.8% 12% cows over 7 years 6th poor ...

Aim This study was conducted in dairy cattle in Nyala, South Darfur State, during the period from June to September 2015, to study the prevalence of bovine tropical theileriosis. Materials and Methods Apparently, healthy cattle of different age groups, different breeds, and from both sexes were randomly selected from seven locations. Three age groups of cattle were selected, group one <1 year...

In an effort to improve productivity and profits many farmers have replaced traditional livestock breeds with higher yielding alternatives. While such changes may bring about short-term economic gains, the loss of traditional livestock breeds could result in the loss of an important genetic resource as a variety of important genetic traits adapted to local conditions gradually become less commo...

Molecular information using gene variants could support livestock selection to improve productivity. This study aimed identify the in part of MSTN (part third exoncoding region), a known for its significant effect on muscle growth. DNA was isolated from 95 Madura cattle blood samples collected Pamekasan, Madura. PCR used amplify region exon, and one-way sequencing conducted obtain thesequence a...

Cattle commonly raised in Thailand have characteristics of Bos indicus (zebu). We do not know when or how cattle domestication in Thailand occurred, and so questions remain regarding their origins and relationships to other breeds. We obtained genome-wide SNP genotypic data of 28 bovine individuals sampled from four regions: North (Kho-Khaolampoon), Northeast (Kho-Isaan), Central (Kho-Lan) and ...

Theileria parva-naïve Friesian (Bos taurus), Boran (Bos indicus) and Maasai Zebu steers (B. indicus) were infected with a T. parva sporozoite stabilate dose which had previously been shown to induce an estimated 50% mortality rate in Boran cattle. All the cattle developed patent infections with no significant differences in the length of the prepatent period to development of macroschizonts (P ...

Crosses of temperate cattle reared in tropical ambience lapse in heat tolerance, fertility and disease resistance. However, cross breeding zebu with high yielding exotic cattle seems necessary to meet the need for enhanced composite milk production per unit in view of food security. Thermal stress is considered as the main factor responsible for reduction of milk yield in tropical climate. Any ...