Estimated Breeding Values of Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Breed
- 1 Department of Animal Husbandry, Veterinary Medicine and Feed and Milk Quality Assessment, Scientific and Production Center for Animal Husbandry and Veterinary, LLP, Astana, Kazakhstan
- 2 Institute of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Husbandry, West Kazakhstan Agrarian and Technical University named after Zhangir Khan, Uralsk, Kazakhstan
- 3 Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "Udmurt State Agrarian University", Izhevsk, Udmurt Republic, Russia
Abstract
The study aims to calculate the estimated breeding value of Aberdeen-Angus cattle using the BLUP method. The live weight of cattle of the Aberdeen-Angus breed was: At birth in bulls 28.25 kg and in heifers 27.18 kg; on day 210, at weaning in bulls 212.31 kg and in heifers 198.04 kg; on day 365, respectively, 328.02 kg and 304.73 kg. At the age of 5, the live weight is 897.05 kg for bulls and 552.04 kg for cows. The average values of the productivity indicators of cattle of the Aberdeen-Angus breed according to the average daily gain showed: From birth to 210 days of age in bulls -879.56 g and heifers -847.07 g; from 210 days to one year of age in bulls -767.03 g and heifers -647.62 g; from birth to one year of age in bulls -831.77 g and heifers -767.37 g. For the Aberdeen-Angus breed, the estimated breeding values in terms of live weight at birth range from -8.24 to +9.93; for live weight at weaning in the range from -42.47 to +39.07; for live weight at 12 months of age from -62.29 to +78.67; for milking capacity of cows from -47.45 to +33.15; for live weight at the age of 5 years from -117.4 to -141.16. The composition of the muscle tissue of Aberdeen-Angus bulls was with a high level of protein usefulness (protein usefulness index 0.70). This is higher than that of crossbred and Black-and-white mates by 6.1 and 4.5%.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ojbsci.2023.351.360
Copyright: © 2023 Anuarbek Temirbekovich Bissembayev, Alzhan Smailuly Shamshidin, Zhanat Maratovi Kasenov, Askhat Erbosynovich Chindaliyev, Olga Stepanovna Starostina, Irina Andreevna Baranova, Stepan Dmitrievich Batanov, Altai Batyrkhanovich Nazarbekov and Dastanbek Asylbekovich Baimukanov. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Keywords
- Beef Cattle
- Aberdeen-Angus Breed
- Live Weight
- Estimated Breeding Value (EBV)
- Meat
- Chemical Composition
- Amino Acid Composition