Dairy traits preference ranking heterogeneity in defining breeding objectives for crossbred dairy herds of Ethiopian Hig...
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Simulated economic and nutritional impacts of irrigated fodder and crossbred cows on farm households in southern Ethiopi...
The livestock sector is one of the main pillars of Ethiopia’s economy. Despite its importance, several constraints related to livestock production such as low productivity, remain a major barrier to the development of the livestock sector in Ethiopia. Improving animal feed resources and breeds can have impacts on both household income and nutrition...
Genomic regions and candidate genes associated with milk production traits in Holstein and its crossbred cattle: A revie...
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are a powerful tool for identifying genomic regions and causative genes associated with economically important traits in dairy cattle, particularly complex traits, such as milk production. This is possible due to advances in next-generation sequencing technology. This review summarized information on identifie...
Enteric Methane Emissions in Dairy Cows with Different Genetic Groups in the Humid Tropics of Costa Rica
Enteric methane (CH4) is one of the main greenhouse gases emitted in livestock production systems with ruminants. Among the options to reduce such emissions, animal genetics is one of the factors that is taking relevance in recent years. The aim of the present study was to assess the emission of enteric CH4 in dairy cows with different genetic back...
Diversity and functional analysis of rumen and fecal microbial communities associated with dietary changes in crossbreed...
The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of varying roughage and concentrate proportions, in diet of crossbreed dairy cattle, on the composition and associated functional genes of rumen and fecal microbiota. We also explored fecal samples as a proxy for rumen liquor samples. Six crossbred dairy cattle were reared on three diets wit...
The profile of HSPA1A gene expression and its association with heat tolerance in crossbred cattle and the tropically ada...
Investigation of genetic polymorphism at β-casein A1/A2 loci and association analysis with production & reproduction tra...
Published in Animal biotechnology
Casein constitutes approximately 80% of the total protein in bovine milk and is regarded as a high-quality dietary protein embracing all the nine essential amino acids. However, the contested physiological effect of a bioactive peptide released upon digestion of a β-casein milk protein variant originating from a cow of a particular genetic makeup h...
Evaluation of growth performance and feed efficiency in exotic chicken breed crosses involving Fayoumi
This is a preprint article, it offers immediate access but has not been peer reviewed. / The present study aimed to investigate the relative performance of crossbreds generated through reciprocal mating of Fayoumi (FM) with Koekoek (KK), Sasso (SS), and White Leghorn (WL), and the purebred parents for growth and feed efficiency traits. Birds were w...
Developing dual-purpose chicken strains for smallholder farmers of Ethiopia. TPGS–Breeding Programs
Evaluation and characterization of semen quality in rams of Menz, Dorper and Awassi crosses in different seasons in Ethi...
