Livestock StudiesPub Date : 2022-09-11DOI: 10.46897/livestockstudies.1173698
Can Karakurt, B. E. Teke, B. Bülbül, K. Alkoyak
{"title":"Pandemics, and Ecological Animal Husbandry","authors":"Can Karakurt, B. E. Teke, B. Bülbül, K. Alkoyak","doi":"10.46897/livestockstudies.1173698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46897/livestockstudies.1173698","url":null,"abstract":"The pandemics to which humanity has been subjected throughout history will also continue to exist in the future. There may be many reasons for the development of pandemics and threats to human and animal health. Whatever the reason, previous pandemics and also this current Covid-19 period revealed the importance of ecological agricultural production. The destruction of natural habitats, industrial agriculture, industrialization, and the decrease in biodiversity disrupt the ecological balance and create an environment for pandemic formation, endangering both human and animal health. This review is focusing on the importance of ecological animal husbandry in terms of both human and animal health and welfare, and especially understanding after the pandemics are part of our life.","PeriodicalId":402330,"journal":{"name":"Livestock Studies","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129779482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Livestock StudiesPub Date : 2022-09-09DOI: 10.46897/livestockstudies.1173020
Emre Karsavuranoğlu, M. K. Sarıbay, E. Koldaş Ürer
{"title":"The Effects of GnRH and hCG Administration on Pregnancy Rate in Postpartum Dairy Cows","authors":"Emre Karsavuranoğlu, M. K. Sarıbay, E. Koldaş Ürer","doi":"10.46897/livestockstudies.1173020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46897/livestockstudies.1173020","url":null,"abstract":"This study was designed to determine the effects of GnRH administration alone at the time of artificial insemination (AI) or in combination with hCG 5 days after GnRH injection on conception rates in postpartum dairy cows. Cows in estrus, without any reproductive health problem, between days 70-120 postpartum were randomly assigned to 3 equal groups. Buserelin acetate (10 µg), was administered at the time of AI to Group I (n=40). Group II (n=40) was administered first with Buserelin acetate (10 μg) at the time of AI and then with 1500 IU of hCG on the 5th day after insemination. Group III was maintained for control purposes and did not receive any treatment. Pregnancy diagnosis was performed on day 30 post-AI by transrectal ultrasonography. Conception rates were 80% (32/40), 80% (32/40), and 57.5% (23/40) in Group I, II and III (P","PeriodicalId":402330,"journal":{"name":"Livestock Studies","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126264702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Livestock StudiesPub Date : 2022-08-15DOI: 10.46897/livestockstudies.1162123
Seda İkiz, Oktay Kankılıç
{"title":"Development of Sensory Organs and its Effects on Growth in Broiler Chicks","authors":"Seda İkiz, Oktay Kankılıç","doi":"10.46897/livestockstudies.1162123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46897/livestockstudies.1162123","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, alterations in poultry farming have been much more than other branches of agriculture. This case also achieves a great deal of success in terms of efficiency. Increasing productivity in broiler production is one of the most important issue and researches are increasing day by day. Both during incubation and after hatching, applications are aimed at increasing productivity, growth and development. In this study, the development of sensory organs in chicks and the effects of the applications through sensory organs are emphasized. Especially in recent years, studies on odor, colour and light have been increasing. In the chick sex posed to some applications during incubation, the effects of these applications after hatching have been observed in most studies. To increase these effects positively, more intensive research should be conducted and positive developments should be recorded in broiler production. Broiler development and growth occurs with feed consumption. The earlier the chicks are fed and the more feed is eaten during growth, the more production occurs at slaughter age. For this reason, the importance of the senses in terms of their effect on the feeding behavior is discussed in this study.","PeriodicalId":402330,"journal":{"name":"Livestock Studies","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114621277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Livestock StudiesPub Date : 2022-08-09DOI: 10.46897/livestockstudies.1159627
Harettin Okut, D. Gianola, K. Weigel
{"title":"Evaluation of Predictive Ability of Bayesian Regularized Neural Network Using Cholesky Factorization of Genetic Relationship Matrices for Additive and Non-additive Genetic Effects","authors":"Harettin Okut, D. Gianola, K. Weigel","doi":"10.46897/livestockstudies.1159627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46897/livestockstudies.1159627","url":null,"abstract":"This study aimed to explore the effects of additive and non-additive genetic effects on the prediction of complex traits using Bayesian regularized artificial neural network (BRANN). The data sets were simulated for two hypothetical pedigrees with five different fractions of total genetic variance accounted by additive, additive x additive, and additive x additive x additive genetic effects. A feed forward artificial neural network (ANN) with Bayesian regularization (BR) was used to assess the performance of different nonlinear ANNs and compare their predictive ability with those from linear models under different genetic architectures of phenotypic traits. Effective number of parameters and sum of squares error (SSE) in test data sets were used to evaluate the performance of ANNs. Distribution of weights and correlation between observed and predicted values in the test data set were used to evaluate the predictive ability. There were clear and significant improvements in terms of the predictive ability of linear (equivalent Bayesian ridge regression) and nonlinear models when the proportion of additive genetic variance in total genetic variance ( ) increased. On the other hand, nonlinear models outperformed the linear models across different genetic architectures. The weights for the linear models were larger and more variable than for the nonlinear network, and presented leptokurtic distributions, indicating strong shrinkage towards 0. In conclusion, our results showed that: a) inclusion of non-additive effects did not improve the prediction ability compared to purely additive models, b) The predictive ability of BRANN architectures with nonlinear activation function were substantially larger than the linear models for the scenarios considered.","PeriodicalId":402330,"journal":{"name":"Livestock Studies","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126663758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Livestock StudiesPub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.46897/livestockstudies.1077836
M. Keskin
{"title":"Five-year term evaluation of the project named \"Kilis Goat National Breeding Project in Kilis province","authors":"M. Keskin","doi":"10.46897/livestockstudies.1077836","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46897/livestockstudies.1077836","url":null,"abstract":"Kilis Goat National Breeding Project has been carried out for 12 years in cooperation with The General Directorate of Agricultural Research and Policies in the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Hatay Mustafa Kemal University and Sheep and Goat Breeders Association of Kilis Province. The aim of the manuscript is to inform about progresses made under the relevant project. In the second five-year period of the project, 43 breeders take part in a total of approximately 6000 female and 300 male animals. Thirty-seven of these herds are base herds and six of them are elite herds. In the study, the effects of gender, maternal age, separation as breeding stock or not, birth types and years on birth and weaning weights were analysed by using the SPSS package program. The effects of herd and age differences on lactation milk yield in elite herds were also analysed by using the SPSS package program. They were determined that birth weights varied between 2.9-3.1 kg and weaning weights between 11.2-12.7 kg for different years. And, milk yield in elite herds increased from 175.6 kg to 346.1 kg from 2016 to 2020. As conclusion, it is recommended that the continuation of this project will be beneficial.","PeriodicalId":402330,"journal":{"name":"Livestock Studies","volume":"125 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130312124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Livestock StudiesPub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.46897/livestockstudies.1077787
G. YILMAZBAŞ MECİTOĞLU
{"title":"The Effect of Early or Late Breeding on Milk Production in High Producing Lactating Dairy Cows","authors":"G. YILMAZBAŞ MECİTOĞLU","doi":"10.46897/livestockstudies.1077787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46897/livestockstudies.1077787","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this study was to compare the effect of early or late breeding on milk production in high producing dairy cows. In this aim, the cows with previous average peak milk yield above 45 kg/d (n = 48) were divided into two groups; Group1 (early bred) included the cows (n = 21) were inseminated between 45 to 75 days in milk (DIM) and Group2 (n = 27; late bred) were inseminated between 76 to 124 DIM. The cows that became pregnant at their first insemination following first estrus selected for the study. Milk yield was recorded every 5 days after calving for the first 45 days then continued for every 15 days for every each cow. Average DIM in early and late bred cows at insemination were 66 (min, 45; max, 75) and 99 (min, 76; max, 124), respectively. Average milk yield up to 271 d was similar between groups, however, average milk yield from 227 to 271 d was lower ( P < 0.04) in early bred cows with 26.7 kg/d compare to late bred cows with 30.3 kg/d. Even, there was no relationship between average milk yield up to 271 d, peak milk yield and day of insemination, it may be concluded that milk yield continues with more pronounced stability through the end of","PeriodicalId":402330,"journal":{"name":"Livestock Studies","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131575293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Livestock StudiesPub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.46897/livestockstudies.1077855
S. Gül, M. Keskin, Ş. Kaya
{"title":"Effects of environmental factors on growth performance of Kilis goat in Gaziantep province","authors":"S. Gül, M. Keskin, Ş. Kaya","doi":"10.46897/livestockstudies.1077855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46897/livestockstudies.1077855","url":null,"abstract":"The study aimed to investigate the effects of maternal age, birth type, gender, birth month and birth season on birth weight, weaning weight and average daily gain of Kilis goat kids reared in Gaziantep province. This study evaluated a total of 14956 kids born in 2019 and 2020 participating in the national project named \"Improvement of Kilis Goat under Farm Conditions\". The result showed an average birth weight of 3.5 ± 0.01 kg, a weaning weight of 15.2 ± 0.02 kg and an average daily gain of 193.4 g. Maternal age, sex, the month of birth, and year also affected mean birth weight, weaning weight, and daily gain ( P < 0.01).","PeriodicalId":402330,"journal":{"name":"Livestock Studies","volume":"235 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122449005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Livestock StudiesPub Date : 2022-05-28DOI: 10.46897/livestockstudies.1122574
G. Dellal
{"title":"Factors Affecting Consumer Perception of Goat Milk and Dairy Products in Ankara Province","authors":"G. Dellal","doi":"10.46897/livestockstudies.1122574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46897/livestockstudies.1122574","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study is to determine the consumption of goat milk and dairy products according to the demographic characteristics of consumers residing in the urban areas of Ankara and to determine the factors affecting the buying and consuming behaviors of these products. Within the scope of the study, face-to-face questionnaires were conducted in supermarket chains with 269 consumers. The surveys were conducted in 9 districts of Ankara including Altındağ, Çankaya, Etimesgut, Gölbaşı, Keçiören, Mamak, Pursaklar, Sincan and Yenimahalle. The results of the research were analyzed with chi-square statistical method and cross table. Average monthly consumption of consumers was found to be 0.25 L for goat milk, 0.62 kg for goat cheese and 0.40 kg for goat ice cream. As a result of the chi-square analysis, the differences between consumption of goat cheese and ice cream with age distribution, consumption of goat milk and cheese with number of years in Ankara were found to be statistically significant. ( P < 0.05). It is thought that the results will contribute to the studies aimed at increasing the consumption of goat milk and dairy products in Turkiye.","PeriodicalId":402330,"journal":{"name":"Livestock Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128607149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Livestock StudiesPub Date : 2022-05-23DOI: 10.46897/livestockstudies.1120128
H. Harman, B. Serpek
{"title":"The Effect of Zinc Supplementation on Plasma Melatonin and Kisspeptin Levels in Rams","authors":"H. Harman, B. Serpek","doi":"10.46897/livestockstudies.1120128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46897/livestockstudies.1120128","url":null,"abstract":"The study that researched the effect of zinc added to the rations of rams on kisspeptin and melatonin levels was conducted on 2 years old 12 Kivircik crossbreed rams (6 control, 6 experimental) for 1 year. In addition to the ad libitum dry alfalfa straw, it was given mixed feed (barley, salt and vitamin-mineral mixture as standard) supplemented with 25 mg/kg/ DM ZnO, for the control group and 125 mg/kg/ DM ZnO for experimental group per day. During the study, blood samples were taken once a month and kisspeptin and melatonin levels were measured with ELISA in plasmas obtained from blood samples. Melatonin levels were found to be between 62.8-164.5 ng/L in experimental group and 22.1-105.9 ng/L in control group. Kisspeptin levels were determined to be between 209.8-514.2 ng/L in experimental group and 92.6-356.6 ng/L in control group. Zinc supplementations showed numerical increases in kisspeptin and melatonin levels","PeriodicalId":402330,"journal":{"name":"Livestock Studies","volume":"292 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132788221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Livestock StudiesPub Date : 2021-12-22DOI: 10.46897/livestockstudies.610206
M. Satilmis, M. Yılmaz, Ramazan Sevgi, T. Karaşahin, S. Kizil, Alaeddin Okuroğlu, T. Ertem, Zulal TAVLI YILDIRIR
{"title":"The Effect of Epidural Application of FSH on Superovulatory Response in Eastern Anatolian Red Cow","authors":"M. Satilmis, M. Yılmaz, Ramazan Sevgi, T. Karaşahin, S. Kizil, Alaeddin Okuroğlu, T. Ertem, Zulal TAVLI YILDIRIR","doi":"10.46897/livestockstudies.610206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46897/livestockstudies.610206","url":null,"abstract":"This study aimed to evaluate the superovulation response in Eastern Anatolian Red (EAR) cows treated with a single epidural injection or traditional administration of follicle stimulating hormone (FSH). Eight cows were randomly divided into two groups, as control (CG) and experiment (EG). Four replications were applied for each animal in the groups. A total of 16 studies were carried out in each group. In this study, 300 mg intramuscular (i.m) FSH injection was applied with decreasing doses twice daily for four days to the cows in the CG. (70:70, 50:50, 20:20, 10:10 mg). On the other hand, 300 mg FSH was administered as 150 mg epidural and 150 mg intramuscular injection to the cows in EG. The number of untransferable embryos and the total CLs were found statistically significant (p<0.05). However, the number of transferable embryos and unfertilized oocyte (UFO) were found statistically insignificant among the groups (p>0.05). According to the obtained data, it was observed that the epidural administration of FSH for superovulation in EAR cows did not provide sufficient follicle and oocyte development. In conclusion, different studies with different superovulation protocols and FSH doses in local breed EAR cows will be needed for further studies.","PeriodicalId":402330,"journal":{"name":"Livestock Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124646910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}