Open AccessGenetic parameters of some productive and reproductive traits in sheep from the Bulgarian dairy synthetic population (BDSP) and its crosses with Lacaune and Assaf
Author(s) -
Georgi Kalaydzhiev
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
biotechnology in animal husbandry/biotechnology in animal husbandry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2217-7140
pISSN - 1450-9156
DOI - 10.2298/bah2104263k
Subject(s) - biology , population , domestic sheep reproduction , heritability , genetic diversity , fertility , zoology , microbiology and biotechnology , veterinary medicine , genetics , demography , medicine , sociology
Dominating in recent years in Bulgaria are the sheep from the Bulgarian Dairy Synthetic Population (BDSP) and its crosses with other dairy breeds. This in turn leads to significant, scientifically based genetic and phenotypic diversity and different levels of productivity. The aim of the study is to research and characterize the genotypic parameters of the main productive and reproductive traits in sheep from the Bulgarian dairy synthetic population and its crosses with the breeds Lacaune and Assaf. The study includes a total of 3212 ewes reared in 15 farms, as from Bulgarian dairy synthetic population - 1114 ewes, BDSP crosses with Assaf - 1052 ewes and BDSP crosses with Lacaune - 1046 ewes, born in the period from 2014 to 2019 including. Studied trait were: milk yield for a standard 120-day period of I, II and III lactation, biological fertility of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd lambing and the trait - live weight of different age categories. The statistical model used was based on the model of animal /Animalmodel /, using the software product VCE and PEST (Groeneveld). Heritability in the main selection trait milk yield of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd lactation reaches from low to moderate and medium values. The lowest level of genetic diversity is in BDSP - h? varies from 0.125 to 0.157, in BDSP x Assaf from 0.131 to 0.202, and with the highest genetic diversity in the studied trait are ewes BDSP x Lacaune, respectively from 0.342 to 0.397. The rates of fertility in all three studied groups were from low to moderate h? - in BDSP from 0.133 to 0.156, in BDSP x Lacaune - from 0.040 to 0.112 and in BDSP x Assaf - from 0.100 to 0.122.