Sentence examples for breed improvement from inspiring English sources
The facility houses more than 13,000 hens and nearly 5000 ducks for research on breed improvement and animal husbandry.
Kim adds that the institute, which studies breed improvement and animal husbandry techniques, will reconstitute its flocks from birds kept at other facilities.
The expectation was that these would provide tenure security and thus create incentives for the Maasai to invest in range and breed improvement and reduce the tendency to accumulate large numbers of perceived low-quality indigenous breed livestock (Kimani and Pickard 1998).
Although inbreeding is sometimes used in animal husbandry for breed improvement, breed formation is often an open process.
These include concluded and ongoing dairy breed improvement programs that used/use exotic animals and semen.
These traditional means of breed improvement through phenotypic selection have led to enhancement of economically important traits in cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry and other livestock [ 24].
This is despite major breed improvements programs instituted to support smallholder farmers in the region through increased livestock productivity [ 43, 44].
The main tools for selection for within-breed improvement are the estimated breeding values (EBV) and corresponding indexes that arise from national cattle evaluations (NCE), which are available in many countries and empowers genetic improvement within the seedstock sector [ 4].
This provides a basis for identifying desirable traits that may be taken up while designing within-breed improvement programs.
The tools available to the animal breeder to improve consumer satisfaction from beef include: the choice of breed, the choice of mating plan to exploit complementarities and heterosis, and selection for within-breed improvement [ 12].
Hence, livestock losses could be minimized further if the number of scrub cattle could be reduced through animal stock improvement programmes such as promotion of high-yielding breeds (Katel et al. 2015) through breeding bull supply and artificial insemination.
