A SIMULATION STUDY TO COMPARE DIFFERENT BREEDING SCENARIOS FOR BLACK BEDOUIN GOAT IN JORDAN | ||||
| Egyptian Journal of Sheep and Goats Sciences | ||||
| Article 8, Volume 5, Issue 1, April 2010, Page 1-10 PDF (111.74 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejsgs.2010.27080 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Al-Atiyat R.1; T. Rewe2; P. Herold2; A. Valle Zárate2 | ||||
| 1Animal Science Department, Mutah University, Jordan. | ||||
| 2Institute for Animal Production in Tropics and Subtropics; University of Hohenheim, Germany. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| ABSTRACT Recently a national Black Bedouin meat goat breeding program has been carried out in the Agriculture station of Mutah University in Jordan but it has not so far resulted in clear genetic improvement. The most important reason for this failure is the lack of an optimizing breeding program design. The aim of this study is to show results of four different simulated scenarios that evaluate the feasibility of Black Bedouin breeding programs in Jordan using ZPLAN software. The breeding goal was a higher marketing weight of kids at 6 months old, whereas selection criteria were doe milk total and partial, birth weight, weaning weight, dam weight, prolificacy and daily gain. The first Scenario was consisting of two closed tier scheme in which bucks were only disseminating from nucleus to commercial farms. The Second Scenario was also consisting of two tier close nucleus in which dissemination were occurred to both bucks and does into commercial farms. The third scenario was considering open scheme for bucks of two tiers. Finally, the fourth Scenario was consisting of two tier open scheme for both bucks and does disseminating downward to commercial population and importing bucks only from commercial population. Modeling results indicate that overall annual profit of the first scenario was only economically profitable (0.264 € per doe). | ||||
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