Published in Scientific Papers. Series D. Animal Science, Vol. LIX
Written by Ertuğrul KUL, Aziz ŞAHİN, Hayrettin ÇAYIROĞLU, Gökhan FİLİK, Emre UĞURLUTEPE, Sezer ÖZ
The objective of the study was to investigate the non-genetic factors affecting the some milk yield traits of Anatolian buffalo raised at public hand in Amasya province, Turkey. A total of 239 buffalo calved in 2014 year were constituted the research material. Calving age and calving season were assessed as affecting non-genetic factors on daily milk yield (DMY), lactation milk yield (LMY) and lactation length (LL). The overall means of DMY, LMY and LL were 2.76±0.051 kg, 470.91±9.784 kg and 171.8±1.66 day, respectively. Calving age had a significant (P<0.05) effect on DMY and LMY, but its effect on LL was not significant. The effects of calving season on DMY, LMY and LL were not significant. DMY and LMY increase progressively until 8th calving age, and the highest milk yield found in the 8thage, then decline gradually in the 9th and 10th ages. The current results show that good selection programme and improvement management including for calving age could improve milk yield traits.
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