EFFECT OF BUCK, YEAR AND SEASON OF INSEMINATION ON PROLIFICACY OF MURCIANO-GRANADINA GOATS

Authors
BURGUETE I QUILES A RAMIREZ A HEVIA ML VALLEJO M
Citation
I. Burguete et al., EFFECT OF BUCK, YEAR AND SEASON OF INSEMINATION ON PROLIFICACY OF MURCIANO-GRANADINA GOATS, Small ruminant research, 29(1), 1998, pp. 121-123
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Agriculture Dairy & AnumalScience
Journal title
Small ruminant research → ACNP
ISSN journal
09214488
Volume
29
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
121 - 123
Database
ISI
SICI code
0921-4488(1998)29:1<121:EOBYAS>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
Prolificacy data were studied on Murciano-Granadina goats artificially inseminated at each of the four season from 1991 to 1993. Three bucks were used in 384 matings that produced 247 kiddings. Average prolific acy was 1.64 +/- 0.6 kids, with mating season and buck having signific ant effects on prolificacy, unlike year of mating. Prolificacy was hig hest in winter (1.72) and spring (1.69) and lowest (1.38) in summer. P rolificacy of one buck (1.41) was significantly lower than that of the other two (1.67 and 1.80). (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.