Murrah is a predominant milch breed of buffalo in India with superior genetic potential for milk production. Estimation parameters production and reproduction traits prerequisite making breeding plan efficient management decisions. This work was undertaken to understand the influence on performance by various factors (genetic non-genetic) along assessment buffaloes. The were figured using mixed...

Maternal malnutrition during lactation programmes for overweight and central leptin resistance in adulthood. The inhibition of lactation by maternal treatment with bromocriptine (a prolactin inhibitor) programmes for obesity, hyperleptinaemia and leptin resistance. Here, we evaluated the short- and long-term effects of early weaning (EW) on body-weight regulation, leptin signalling, and hormone...

AIM The aim was to estimate genetic factors affecting the first lactation milk production traits in Kankrej cattle of North Gujarat. MATERIALS AND METHODS The 475 first lactation records of Kankrej cows that were maintained at the Livestock Research Station, Sardarkrushinagar Dantiwada Agricultural University, Sardarkrushinagar, Gujarat, over a period of 35 years from 1980 to 2014 were studie...

This article presents a method for measuring the geometry of crane rails with terrestrial laser scanning (TLS). Two sets of crane rails were divided into segments, their planes were adjusted, and the characteristic rail lines were defined. We used their profiles to define the positional and altitude deviations of the rails, the span and height difference between the two rails, and we also verif...

The aim of research was to evaluate changes of physico-chemical characteristics, somatic cell count and curd quality during lactation and their relationship in Lacaune ewes. The study was carried out on eighteen ewes of the second lactation on an organic farm in Valašská Bystřice (Czech Republic). It was found that the stage of lactation significantly affected almost all monitored traits except...

The breeding data relating to Hariana herd spread over 18 years (1979-96) were analysed to estimate genetic, phenotypic and environmental changes in characters of economic importance which might have taken place during the several years of selective breeding practiced in the herd. The average genetic changes in a given character were estimated by four methods. The phenotypic trends observed for...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the current study was to describe the relationship between milk yield and lactation number, stage, length and milking frequency in Korean Holstein dairy cows using an automatic milking system (AMS). METHODS The original data set consisted of observations from April to October 2016 of 780 Holstein cows, with a total of 10,751 milkings. Each time a cow was milked by an AMS ...

Lactation yield estimates standardized to common lactation lengths of 270-d or 305-d equivalents are commonly used in management decision support tools and dairy cow genetic evaluations. The use such measurements quantify the (genetic) merit individual cows fails penalize that do not reach length, indeed reward lactate for more than length. objective present study was nongenetic factors associa...

Paediatric outpatient utilisation in a district general hospital was studied for 20 general practices that covered a population of 26,433 children. The actions taken by paediatric staff were analysed for 487 new referrals and 2784 review attendances (the latter in 1630 children) over an eight month period. New referral rates from different general practices varied between 3.7 per thousand child...