the objective of this study was to investigate the effect of inbreeding on lactation performance in holstein cows of iran.the pedigree file contained information of 1,025,281 animals born between 1965 and 2007.lactation performance records from march 2000 to april 2009 comprising 193,501calving events on 123,751 cows in 85 dairy herds were included in the data set. the potential consequent effe...

in order to evaluation of genotype by environment interactions in holstein cows, iran was divided into cold, middle cold, temperate and hot climate regions. for this purpose used from 39570, 35813 and 18955 records for milk, fat and protein yields, respectively, to progeny test for 35 sires that have 50 daughters in each climate. the data were collected by the centre of breeding and improvement...

in order to investigate the effects of organic, chemical and biological fertilizers on crude protein and oil yields and fatty acids composition in black seed (nigella sativa l.), a field experiment was conducted at agricultural research station of ferdowsi university of mashhad, iran, in 2009-2010. the experiment was arranged by using a complete randomized block design based on factorial arrang...

Dairy cattle breeding programs have been based in the selection for traits related to milk production. In this research a data set of 63 herds of East Azerbaijan province Holstein cattle, collected during 2002-2013 by the Iranian Animal Breeding Center was used to estimate the repeatability and heritability of three traits of economic importance. Genetic parameters for first three lactations of...

this study was conducted to evaluate production response of early lactating cows to rumen protected fats. twelve (nine multiparous and three primiparous) holstein cows (26±4 d in milk) were empolyed in a replicated 3×3 latin square design of 21-d periods. each period consisted of 14 days of adaptation and 7 days of sampling. cows received diets containing either one of two types of protected fa...

this study was performed to evaluate the effects of crud protein (cp) level on dry matter intake in prepartum period, productive performance and health of fresh cows. twenty multiparous holstein cows were assigned randomly to one of two dietary treatments. dietary treatments were treatment 1, 13% cp of dm (control), and treatment 2, 16% cp of dm. diets were similar in lactation net energy and r...

dairy cattle breeding programs have been based in the selection for traits related to milk production. in this research a data set of 63 herds of east azerbaijan province holstein cattle, collected during 2002-2013 by the iranian animal breeding center was used to estimate the repeatability and heritability of three traits of economic importance. genetic parameters for first three lactations of...

the aim of this study was to compare the effects of two levels of crude protein using poultry by-product meals (pbpm) fed during late gestation on the performance, blood metabolites, and colostrum composition of holstein dairy cows. sixteen multiparous cows 26±6 d before expected calving were assigned randomly to two treatments containing 1) 14% and 2) 16% crude protein. the cow’s bcs was 3.56 ...

The objective of this study was to compare the effects of soybean (SB) meal (SBM) with increased rumen undegradable protein as roasted SB (RSB), extruded SB (ESB) or their equal blend (RSB + ESB) on production performance, nutrient digestibility, N-utilization efficiency, and blood metabolites in mid-lactation dairy cows. Eight lactating Holstein cows (BW = 534 ± 52 and DIM = 104 ± 5; mean ± SD...

the effect of different mozzarella cheese manufacturing methods, i.e. direct acidification (da), starter culture (sc) and their combination method (cm) on physicochemical, yield, texture, color and sensory properties of the product were compared. chemical analyses of samples revealed that the sc cheese had higher fat, moisture, ash, titratable acidity, actual and adjusted yields and fat recover...