Charolais bulls are selected for their crossbreed performance when mated to Montbéliard or Holstein dams. To implement genomic prediction, one could build a reference population for each crossbred population independently. An alternative could be to combine both crossbred populations into a single reference population to increase size and accuracy of prediction. The objective of this study was ...

The objective was to determine the effect of forage quality on apparent total tract digestibility and ruminal fermentation in cattle versus sheep. Five yearling English crossbred (Hereford × Angus) steers (440.4 ± 35.6 kg of initial BW) and 5 yearling whiteface (Rambouillet × Columbia × Debouillet) wethers (44.4 ± 4.6 kg of initial BW), each fitted with a ruminal cannula, were randomly assigned...

The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of a high dietary Se supplementation on the whole transcriptome of sheep. A custom sheep whole-transcriptome microarray, with more than 23,000 unique transcripts, was designed and then used to profile the global gene expression of sheep after feeding a high dietary supplementation of organic Se. Lactating crossbred ewes ( = 10; 3 to 4 yr...

Kisspeptin has been demonstrated to affect reproductive cyclicity and the attainment of puberty in multiple species, presumably through its actions on gonadotropin releasing hormone luteinizing hormone. administration causes increased plasma concentrations LH pigs, sheep, rats. The objective this experiment was evaluate changes hypothalamic kisspeptin system throughout estrous cycle gilts. Estr...

East Friesian-sired F1 ewe lambs (n = 27) and Lacaune-sired F1 ewe lambs (n = 31) born in 1999 were compared for lamb production, lactation performance, and udder morphology traits in a dairy sheep production environment in 2000. The ewe lambs were the progeny of seven East Friesian and five Lacaune sires. A contemporary group of high percentage East Friesian ewe lambs (> 3/4 East Friesian, n =...

the study was conducted to know the effect of flushed feeding on estrus synchronization and conception rate of holstein ílocal crossbred cow’s after using the gnrh (fertagyl) and pgf2α hormone. as a representative sample 20 holstein ílocal crossbred cows were chosen from chittagong cantonment military dairy farm in bangladesh and the experimental work was carried out for 60 days. ten cows were ...

One hundred and ninety two records were taken weekly for twenty four (24) weeks from West African Dwarf (WD), the Yankasa (YN) X crossbred (XB) sheep. The traits evaluated milk yield (MK), linear body measurements (LB) such as height at withers, (HT), length (BL), heart girth (HG), shoulder width (SW), Tail (TA), Neck (NL), circumference (NC), Face (FA), Hind leg (HL), Foreleg (FL), Ear (EA), H...