Mohammad hadi Khabbazan; Abdollah Rezagholivand Lahrud; Saeed mokhtarzadeh; Hojatollah Moosapour
Volume 24, Issue 4 , December 2022, , Pages 395-401
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The objective of this study was to compare growth performance, birth and weaning body weights, and survivability between purebred Balouchi (n=53) and crossbred Balouchi×Romanov (n=114) lambs. In addition, carcass characteristics (n=24) were determined. Balouchi ewes were inseminated with Romanov ...
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The objective of this study was to compare growth performance, birth and weaning body weights, and survivability between purebred Balouchi (n=53) and crossbred Balouchi×Romanov (n=114) lambs. In addition, carcass characteristics (n=24) were determined. Balouchi ewes were inseminated with Romanov semen to produce crossbred lambs. All experimental lambs were weaned at 77 d of age and slaughtered at 10 months of age. Birth body weight of the purebred Balouchi lambs was significantly greater than for the crossbred lambs (3.75 vs. 3.56 kg, P<0.01). However, weaning body weight and average daily gain from birth until weaning and slaughter were greater (P<0.05) for the crossbred lambs than for the purebred lambs. Slaughter body weight at 10-month age were not different brtween the tow groups (P=0.08). Litter size was also increased by crossbreeding and using hormone (1.13 vs. 1.00), but lamb survivability was not different between the two groups. The fat yield decreased with crossbreeding. Crossbreeding increased (P<0.05) the weights of testis, liver, heart, and lung. It is concluded that crossbreeding Balouchi ewes with Romanov semen resulted in improved litter size, weaning and slaughter body weights, average daily gains from birth until weaning and slaughter, and carcass characteristics without affecting lamb survivability. Therefore, crossbreeding can be a profitable strategy to increase lamb (meat) production in Balouchi sheep.
seyyed ziaodin mirhosseini; Shahla Nematollahian; Seyed Hossein Hosseini Moghaddam; Navid Ghavi-Hossein-Zadeh; Ramin Abdoli; Yosof Kheikhah
Volume 24, Issue 1 , April 2022, , Pages 1-11
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The aim of the present study was to investigate the performance of the hybrids obtained by crosses of the six Japanese silkworm lines named IRA1, IRA3, IRA5, IRA7, IRA9, and IRA11 and six Chinese silkworm lines named IRA2, IRA4, IRA6, IRA8, IRA10, and IRA12. The new hybrids derived from these lines along ...
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The aim of the present study was to investigate the performance of the hybrids obtained by crosses of the six Japanese silkworm lines named IRA1, IRA3, IRA5, IRA7, IRA9, and IRA11 and six Chinese silkworm lines named IRA2, IRA4, IRA6, IRA8, IRA10, and IRA12. The new hybrids derived from these lines along with available commercial hybrids (as control groups) for six traits including cocoon weight, cocoon shell weight, cocoon shell percentage, best cocoon weight, pupation rate and best cocoon pupation rate were measured and recorded in spring 2020. The IRA7×IRA6 and IRA7×IRA12 hybrids had more performance in comparison with commercial hybrids in terms of productive traits including cocoon weight and cocoon shell weight (p<0.01), but, when productive and viability traits (pupation rate and best cocoon pupation rate) were considered together in an evaluation index, they were not among the selected hybrids. Commercial 31×32 hybrid in terms of cocoon shell weight and cocoon shell percentage had more performance in comparison with the other hybrids (new and commercial) (p<0.01). Hybrids had a significant difference for pupation rate and best cocoon pupation rate (p<0.01), and the IRA5×RA12, IRA1×IRA10 and IRA11×IRA6 hybrids showed the lowest mean for both traits in comparison with other hybrids (p<0.01). The obtained results showed that seven hybrids including IRA9×IRA2, IRA11×IRA2, IRA3×IRA6, IRA3×IRA2, IRA7×IRA4, IRA7×IRA10 and IRA7×IRA8 were greater than the minimum set for every six traits. Among these hybrids, some will be chosen in the commercial production line based on their performance in the field and regional experiments to supply the country's required silkworm eggs.
Davoud Ali Saghi; Ali Mobaraki; Mohammad Robati Baluch; Razieh Saghi
Volume 23, Issue 3 , September 2021, , Pages 325-335
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The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of crossbreeding on growth performance and carcass composition of purebred and crossbred Kurdi lambs. Thus, two genetic groups including purebred Kurdi lambs (KK) and crossbred Kurdi*Romanov lambs (KR) were used. For analysis of carcass traits, six lambs ...
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The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of crossbreeding on growth performance and carcass composition of purebred and crossbred Kurdi lambs. Thus, two genetic groups including purebred Kurdi lambs (KK) and crossbred Kurdi*Romanov lambs (KR) were used. For analysis of carcass traits, six lambs from each group were selected and slaughtered. The number of weaned lambs for KK and KR were 95 and 45, respectively. Our results indicated thatKK purebred lambs had the highest (4.5 kg) and KR crossbred lambs had the lowest (4.1 kg) birth weight (P < 0.05). Crossbred Kurdi*Romanov lambs had higher average daily gain than KK purebred lambs (P < 0.05). The means of final weights of purebred lambs were significantly higher than crossbred lambs (54.8 vs. 41.5 kg, respectively). The genetic groups had no significant effect on cold and hot carcass weights. The effect of crossbreeding on fat thickness, fat-tail and leg was significant (P < 0.05). Crossbred lambs performed better than purebred lambs in the pre-weaning period, but purebred Kurdi lambs performed better than crossbred lambs in the fattening period. In general, it can be reported that the crossbreeding of Kurdi sheep with Romanov sheep did not show the desireble results.
Abdollah Rezagholivand Lahrud; Akbar Nikkhah; Hadi Khabazan; Saeed mokhtarzadeh; Majid Dehghan; Farzad Sadighi; Yosef Mokhtabad; Farzad Safari; Azim Rajaei
Volume 22, Issue 3 , September 2020, , Pages 457-469
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The aim of this study was to compare feedlot performance, carcass characteristics, blood metabolites, and economic profits between pure and crossbreeds Holstein calves. Crossbreeds were produced by crossing Holstein (H) cows with Angus (A), Charolais (C), Limousin (L) and INRA 95 (I) bull’s semen. ...
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The aim of this study was to compare feedlot performance, carcass characteristics, blood metabolites, and economic profits between pure and crossbreeds Holstein calves. Crossbreeds were produced by crossing Holstein (H) cows with Angus (A), Charolais (C), Limousin (L) and INRA 95 (I) bull’s semen. The performance of 25 calves of each breed (125 calves in total) was compared in a fattening period of eleven months. The average daily gain was significantly higher in crossbred calves compared to pure Holstein calves. The interaction of breed and time was significant (p < 0.01). The Charolais crossbred calves and pure Holstein had significantly lower dry matter intake than other crossbreeds, and feed conversion ratio in the C×H calves was remarkably more favorable than other groups (p < 0.01). Dressing percentage and saleable meat yield for C×H, L×H and I×H crossbreeds were higher than for pure Holstein and A×H. Concentrations of plasma urea of Charolais crossbred calves was more than other groups (p < 0.01). Economic calculations demonstrated that the respective highest profit for the whole fattening period belonged to crossbreeds of C×H, I×H, L×H, A×H, and pure Holsteins. In conclusion, the calves from Holstein-beef crosses had higher feedlot performance, dressing percentage and economic productivity than pure Holstein calves.
Rasoul Vaez Torshizi
Volume 19, Issue 2 , August 2017, , Pages 265-280
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The aim of this study was to compare the performance of immune system in Arian, Native, Arian × native crosses, native × Arian crosses and Ross chickens. Through artificial insemination, a total number of 298 birds produced and reared with 100 Ross strain chickens. Thereafter, 15 to 20 percent ...
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The aim of this study was to compare the performance of immune system in Arian, Native, Arian × native crosses, native × Arian crosses and Ross chickens. Through artificial insemination, a total number of 298 birds produced and reared with 100 Ross strain chickens. Thereafter, 15 to 20 percent of chickens were randomly chosen for immune system performance and some of blood parameters comparison. The studied traits were humoral, cell-mediated and innate immunity responses, plasma protein concentrations and relative weight of lymph organs. Data were analyzed using GLM procedure and means were compared using Tukey method. The highest titer of total antibody was in Arian strain and the lowest was in Ross strain. There was no significant difference between sexes and strains for cell-mediated immunity. Responses in crossbred chickens for humoral and cell-mediated immunity were not significantly different from Ross strain. No significant difference was observed for hematocrit percent between crossbred chickens and commercial strains. In crossbred chickens, the percentage of plasma albumin was significantly higher than the other strains (P<0.05). While, the lysozyme activity of crossbred chickens was significantly lower than Arian strain (p<0.05), it did not indicate any difference with Ross strain. The relative weight of all organs in crossbred chickens was lower than native and higher than commercial chickens. The results of current study indicated that the performance of immune system in crossbred chickens was favorable and in some cases better than the other strains. Therefore, it is possible to create resistance birds with suitable growth performance from crosses of native and commercial strains.
Sima Savar Sofla; Mahnaz Salehi
Volume 18, Issue 3 , October 2016, , Pages 635-646
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This was a study to investigate quantitative and qualitative characteristics of fiber extracted from crossbred goats derived from female hair goats indigenous of Qom and male Cashmere goats of South of Khorasan. From a total of 75 indigenous and cross goats aged 1-3, qualities such as the percentage ...
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This was a study to investigate quantitative and qualitative characteristics of fiber extracted from crossbred goats derived from female hair goats indigenous of Qom and male Cashmere goats of South of Khorasan. From a total of 75 indigenous and cross goats aged 1-3, qualities such as the percentage of cashmere in fleece, percentage of hair in fleece, hair staple length, cashmere staple length, cashmere fiber length, hair fiber length, and fiber diameter was investigated. Taking into account the effect of genetic group, sex and age characteristics, the data were analyzed with SAS software. The average fleece weight of goats was 300.2 ± 19.4 grams with a minimum of 99 and maximum of 713 grs. The length of hair fiber in the male goats fleece (12.8 ± 0.7 cm) was more than female ones (10.2 ± 0.5 cm); It was 12.0 ± 0 .6, 10.3 ± 0.4 and 12.2 ± 1.1 cm in indigenous goats, first and second generation cross goats respectively. The fleece weight in crossbred goats showed 21 grams increase compared to Qom indigenous goats; the difference was not statistically significant; While the percentage of cashmere in crossbred goats was almost twice as the indigenous goats (p<0.01). Based on the results, crossbreeding between the female hair goats of Qom and male cashmere goats of South of Khorasan improves the quality and quantity of extracted fiber.
Hossein Gholami; Mohammad Reza Kianzad
Volume 16, Issue 2 , October 2015, , Pages 137-145
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This study was carried out by using two hundred ewes (2-4 years old) as pure breeding (Zel × Zel) and crossbreeding (Chal × Zel). In each treatment, 30 male and 30 female lambs were fattened in a feedlot experiment for three periods; 75, 100 and 125 days. At the end of each period, ...
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This study was carried out by using two hundred ewes (2-4 years old) as pure breeding (Zel × Zel) and crossbreeding (Chal × Zel). In each treatment, 30 male and 30 female lambs were fattened in a feedlot experiment for three periods; 75, 100 and 125 days. At the end of each period, 10 lambs of each treatment were slaughter and carcasses analysis was down. The lean meat percentage and bone percentage in each feedlot periods was not affected by genetic composition and lamb gender (P< 0.05), but carcass fat percent in feedlot periods were significantly (P<0.05) lower in Zel male and crossbred female lambs. Weight of crossbred lambs at the weaning and finishing were 22 and 26 percent heavier than the purebred lambs, respectively. In this study, under industrial breeding conditions, ewes produced 5382 kg live weight lambs in pure breeding system (with 165 percent increase) and 6774 kg live weight lambs, under crossbreeding system (with a 234 percent increase). Consequently, breeding of purebred or crossbred Zel lambs which fattened in an intensive feedlot condition would be economically beneficial to farmers.