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Effects of non-genetic factors on age at first conception and calving interval in Holstein cattle under subtropical conditions

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Title Effects of non-genetic factors on age at first conception and calving interval in Holstein cattle under subtropical conditions
 
Creator USMAN, TAHIR
SUHAIL, SYED MUHAMMAD
ZHANG, XU
GUO, GANG
ULLAH, IHSAN
SADIQUE, UMMER
WANG, YACHUN
 
Subject Age at first conception
Calving interval
Holstein
Subtropical conditions
 
Description Fertility is a major trait and key factor to profitable dairy farming but at the same time often a limiting element in attempts to increase the milk production. Data on 517 lactation records of Holstein cattle maintained at Agricultural University Peshawar Dairy Farm in Pakistan from the period 1999 to 2010 were studied. The effect of various non- genetic factors i.e. sire, parity, season year of birth/calving on age at first conception (AFC) and calving interval (CI) were investigated using fixed effect model by GLM procedure of SAS 9.1. The effect of sire and season year of birth was highly significant (P<0.01) on AFC, whereas, highly significant effect of parity (P<0.01) and significant (P<0.05) effect of season year of calving on CI was observed. Mean AFC and CI were 709.9±71.9 days and 425.3±97.7 days, respectively. Under subtropical conditions the focus is always on milk performance while reproduction is often overlooked, due to which reproductive traits were found considerably inferior to those of temperate conditions. Even under subtropical conditions improvement trends were observed across years for both the traits. Therefore, managerial interventions supplemented by improved genetic potential are proposed to optimize these important reproductive traits.
 
Publisher Indian Council of Agricultural Research
 
Date 2014-01-30
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IJAnS/article/view/37306
10.56093/ijans.v84i1.37306
 
Source The Indian Journal of Animal Sciences; Vol. 84 No. 1 (2014); 45–49
2394-3327
0367-8318
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IJAnS/article/view/37306/16684
 
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