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Naha BC, Chakravarty AK, Mir MA, Jamuna V, Singh AP, Maher D. Identifying factors affecting age at first semen freezing and age at first semen use in Sahiwal bulls. Vet World 2016; 8:928-31. [PMID: 27047178 PMCID: PMC4774690 DOI: 10.14202/vetworld.2015.928-931] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2015] [Revised: 06/24/2015] [Accepted: 06/30/2015] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Aim: The objective of the study was to evaluate the effects of non-genetic factors on reproduction traits viz. age at first semen freezing and age at first semen use of breeding bulls in Sahiwal bulls by fitting least-squares analysis. Materials and Methods: The information on reproduction traits of 43 Sahiwal breeding bulls belonging to 8 sets of Sahiwal breeding program at Indian Council of Agricultural Research-National Dairy Research Institute (ICAR-NDRI), Karnal (Haryana), India during 27 years (1987-2013) were analyzed using fixed linear model. The information was collected from AI records, reproduction sheets, and bull AI register maintained at different sections of Institute viz. record room of Dairy Cattle Breeding Division (DCB), Cattle Yard, Artificial Breeding Research Centre, ICAR-NDRI, Karnal. Results: The average age at first semen freezing and age at first semen use of Sahiwal breeding bulls was estimated as 3.17±0.01 years and 5.35±0.01 years, with the coefficient of variation 18.93% and 20%, respectively. The overall least-squares mean for age at first semen freezing and age at first semen use was estimated as 3.14±0.09 years and 5.25±0.02 years, respectively, in Sahiwal breeding bulls. Period of freezing/use had significant effects on reproductive traits (p<0.01). Season had no significant effect on any of the traits considered in this study. Conclusion: It can be concluded that management inputs such as nutrition, breeding, and optimum environment should be taken care of to optimize age at first semen freezing and age at first semen use for better utilization of superior germplasm.
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- B C Naha
- Division of Animal Genetics, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Dairy Cattle Breeding Division, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana, India
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- Dairy Cattle Breeding Division, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana, India
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- Dairy Cattle Breeding Division, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana, India
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- Dairy Cattle Breeding Division, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana, India
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- Dairy Cattle Breeding Division, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana, India
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Dash S, Chakravarty AK, Sah V, Jamuna V, Behera R, Kashyap N, Deshmukh B. Influence of Temperature and Humidity on Pregnancy Rate of Murrah Buffaloes under Subtropical Climate. Asian-Australas J Anim Sci 2015; 28:943-50. [PMID: 26104398 PMCID: PMC4478503 DOI: 10.5713/ajas.14.0825] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2014] [Revised: 12/30/2014] [Accepted: 01/26/2015] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Heat stress has adverse effects on fertility of dairy animals. Decline in fertility is linearly associated with an increase in combination of both temperature and humidity. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between temperature humidity index (THI) and the pregnancy rate of Murrah buffaloes in a subtropical climate. The effects of genetic and non-genetic factors viz., sire, parity, period of calving and age group at first calving were found non-significant on pregnancy rate. The effect of THI was found significant (p<0.001) on pregnancy rate of Murrah buffaloes calved for first time and overall pregnancy rate. The threshold THI affecting the pregnancy rate was identified as THI 75. The months from October to March showed THI<75 and considered as non heat stress zone (NHSZ), while months from April to September were determined as heat stress zone (HSZ) with THI≥75. The lowest overall pregnancy rate (0.25) was obtained in July with THI 80.9, while the highest overall pregnancy rate (0.59) was found in November with THI 66.1. May and June were identified as critical heat stress zone (CHSZ) within the HSZ with maximum decline (-7%) in pregnancy rate with per unit increase in THI. The highest overall pregnancy rate was estimated as 0.45 in NHSZ with THI value 56.7 to 73.2. The pregnancy rate was found to have declined to 0.28 in HSZ with THI 73.5 to 83.7. However, the lowest pregnancy rate was estimated as 0.27 in CHSZ with THI value 80.3 to 81.6.
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- Soumya Dash
- Division of Animal Genetics, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly-243 122, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Division of Animal Genetics, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly-243 122, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Division of Animal Genetics, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly-243 122, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Division of Animal Genetics, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly-243 122, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Division of Animal Genetics, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly-243 122, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Division of Animal Genetics, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly-243 122, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Division of Animal Genetics, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly-243 122, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Mir MA, Chakravarty AK, Gupta AK, Naha BC, Jamuna V, Patil CS, Singh AP. Optimizing age of bull at first use in relation to fertility of Murrah breeding bulls. Vet World 2015; 8:518-22. [PMID: 27047126 PMCID: PMC4774803 DOI: 10.14202/vetworld.2015.518-522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2014] [Revised: 03/16/2015] [Accepted: 03/23/2015] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Aim: The aim of the present investigation was to optimize the age at first use (AAFU) of semen of Murrah breeding bulls, which will help in early selection of bulls under progeny testing program for improving the reproductive performance in the herd. Materials and Methods: The data on AAFU, conception rate based on first A.I. (CRFAI), overall conception rate (OCR), and birth weight (B.WT) of 57 Murrah bulls during 1993-2014 at NDRI center pertaining to 14 sets of Network Project on Buffalo Improvement at ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana, India were adjusted for significant environmental influences and subsequently analyzed. Simple and multiple regression models were used for prediction of CRFAI and OCR of Murrah breeding bulls. Comparative evaluation of three developed models (I-III) showed that Model III, having AAFU and B.WT, fulfill the accuracy of model as revealed by high coefficient of determination, low mean sum of squares due to error, low conceptual predictive value, and low Bayesian information criterion. Results: The results revealed that the average predicted CRFAI was highest (39.95%) at <3.5 years and lowest (34.87%) at >4.5 years of age at first A.I/use. Similarly, average predicted OCR was highest (41.05%) at <3.5 years and lowest (39.42%) at >4.5 years of age at first A.I/use of Murrah bulls. Conclusion: In organized herd under progeny testing program, Murrah bulls should be used at young age, i.e. prior to 3.5 years, which is expected to result in 5.08% better CRFAI and 1.63% better OCR in comparison to Murrah bulls used after 4.5 years of age.
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- M A Mir
- Dairy Cattle Breeding Division, National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana, India
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- Dairy Cattle Breeding Division, National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana, India
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- Dairy Cattle Breeding Division, National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana, India
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- Division of Animal Genetics, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Barielly, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Dairy Cattle Breeding Division, National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana, India
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- Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Hisar, Haryana, India
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- Dairy Cattle Breeding Division, National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana, India
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Vohra V, Niranjan SK, Mishra AK, Jamuna V, Chopra A, Sharma N, Jeong DK. Phenotypic Characterization and Multivariate Analysis to Explain Body Conformation in Lesser Known Buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) from North India. Asian-Australas J Anim Sci 2015; 28:311-7. [PMID: 25656215 PMCID: PMC4341073 DOI: 10.5713/ajas.14.0451] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2014] [Revised: 09/01/2014] [Accepted: 09/11/2014] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Phenotypic characterization and body biometric in 13 traits (height at withers, body length, chest girth, paunch girth, ear length, tail length, length of tail up to switch, face length, face width, horn length, circumference of horn at base, distances between pin bone and hip bone) were recorded in 233 adult Gojri buffaloes from Punjab and Himachal Pradesh states of India. Traits were analysed by using varimax rotated principal component analysis (PCA) with Kaiser Normalization to explain body conformation. PCA revealed four components which explained about 70.9% of the total variation. First component described the general body conformation and explained 31.5% of total variation. It was represented by significant positive high loading of height at wither, body length, heart girth, face length and face width. The communality ranged from 0.83 (hip bone distance) to 0.45 (horn length) and unique factors ranged from 0.16 to 0.55 for all these 13 different biometric traits. Present study suggests that first principal component can be used in the evaluation and comparison of body conformation in buffaloes and thus provides an opportunity to distinguish between early and late maturing to adult, based on a small group of biometric traits to explain body conformation in adult buffaloes.
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- V Vohra
- Dairy Cattle Breeding Division, National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana 132001, India
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- Dairy Cattle Breeding Division, National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana 132001, India
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- Dairy Cattle Breeding Division, National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana 132001, India
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- Dairy Cattle Breeding Division, National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana 132001, India
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- Dairy Cattle Breeding Division, National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana 132001, India
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- Division of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Science & Animal Husbandry, Sher-E-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & technology of Jammu, R.S. Pura, Jammu 181102, India
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- Department of Animal Biotechnology, Faculty of Biotechnology, Jeju National University, Jeju 690756, Korea
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Jamuna V, Chakravarty A, Patil C. Influence of non-genetic factors on performance traits in Murrah buffaloes. INDIAN J ANIM RES 2015. [DOI: 10.5958/0976-0555.2015.00089.8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Khosravi Y, Tay S, Jamuna V. First characterization of blaIMP and blaVIM cassette-containing Novel Integron in metallo-ßlactamase producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Malaysia. Int J Infect Dis 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2010.02.1569] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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