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Author: Juho Kyntäjä Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9086865933 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 383
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"This publication focuses on the various aspects of domestic animal recording, aimed at improving the management of herds and increasing their productivity. New strategies for recording are illustrated and the most updated technologies are presented, on the basis of national experiences where such technologies are already adopted. Although cattle is the prominent species, two parts are dedicated to small ruminants recording and to buffalo recording. Future challenges and opportunities for further development of ICAR and the definition of the future scenarios in the animal recording sector are also described. A special section is dedicated to 'Improving the health traits by recording and evaluation', where the past and future of animal recording and the use of animal recording data for genetic evaluation and breeding are defined. Another section deals with the 'ICAR Reference Laboratory Network', where the reference systems, the principles and the practices for calibration system for routine milk testing are presented. The publication ends with the national statistics on the 'Yearly enquiry on the situation of milk recording in member countries' for the years 2003 and 2004. A total of 45 pages describes the methodologies used at national level for milk recording, the national data for milk production, the costs of recording and the productivity and numbers of recorded cattle at national level (divided by species and by herdbook)."
Author: Juho Kyntäjä Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9086865933 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 383
Book Description
"This publication focuses on the various aspects of domestic animal recording, aimed at improving the management of herds and increasing their productivity. New strategies for recording are illustrated and the most updated technologies are presented, on the basis of national experiences where such technologies are already adopted. Although cattle is the prominent species, two parts are dedicated to small ruminants recording and to buffalo recording. Future challenges and opportunities for further development of ICAR and the definition of the future scenarios in the animal recording sector are also described. A special section is dedicated to 'Improving the health traits by recording and evaluation', where the past and future of animal recording and the use of animal recording data for genetic evaluation and breeding are defined. Another section deals with the 'ICAR Reference Laboratory Network', where the reference systems, the principles and the practices for calibration system for routine milk testing are presented. The publication ends with the national statistics on the 'Yearly enquiry on the situation of milk recording in member countries' for the years 2003 and 2004. A total of 45 pages describes the methodologies used at national level for milk recording, the national data for milk production, the costs of recording and the productivity and numbers of recorded cattle at national level (divided by species and by herdbook)."
Author: M. Guellouz Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9086865364 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 428
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"This publication contains the proceedings of the 34th Biennial Session of the International Committee for Animal Recording (ICAR) and the Interbull Meeting held in Sousse, Tunisia from 28th May to 3rd June 2004.The book is divided in five sessions, containing in total 50 technical papers and reports. One key session debates the traceability and all subjects involved in animal health recording. This publication also presents, for the first time, the statistics of the ""Yearly inquiry on the situation of milk recording in ICAR member countries. Results for the years 2001 and 2002"" are up-dated to April 2004. About 35 pages are devoted to national milk productions, their recording costs, position of milk recording and the results of milk recording divided by breeds and are presented in easy to read tables. The main topics covered in this book are: - the latest genetic improvement techniques for the global dairy industry; - the potential to create an international beef evaluation system; - presentation of advancing new technical standards for identification, performance testing, as well as a discussion of global priorities for livestock management; - new tools to improve the fertility of dairy cows. New technologies have always been important in ICAR forums for members to understand and discuss. In this conference electronic identification and measurement, DNA recording, and internet services were debated, with an exchange of experiences by the delegates. Finally, new strategies for potential new services for the ICAR member organisations were discussed. One such proposal was for an international benchmarking service for measuring and comparing the activities of ICAR organizations."
Author: J. Crettenand Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9086865119 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 375
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This publication collects the Proceedings of the 33rd Biennial Session of the International Committee for Animal Recording (ICAR) held in Interlaken, Switzerland on 26-31 May 2002. Around 400 participants from 60 countries took part in the ICAR Session or attended the Interbull Meeting. The activities were divided into five parallel technical sessions. Overall, about 40 technical papers and reports were presented during the sessions. A technical session was especially reserved for the presentation of the activities of the Task-Forces, Sub-Committees and Working Groups in which a total of 19 reports were presented. The issues that were discussed covered the use of new technologies for animal performance recording, the application of national animal tracing databases, the use of data from permanent milk recording for official performance recording, the performance recording of beef traits and possible alternative systems of recording of functional traits. Particularly relevant was also the involvement of representatives of non-member organizations, especially from Central and Eastern Europe and developing countries, whose needs demonstrate the possibilities that are offered to ICAR to help the (re)organization of the animal sector. This supporting activity with those finalized to reach a better comparison of the production systems among the member organization demonstrate the potentialities of the association. The Sessions allowed an active exchange of ideas and experiences among the participants who recognized that the dialogue is the engine for improvement. Considering that the resources of most member organizations have been reduced, the need of working together was strongly underlined, today more than in the past, in order to achieve shared objectives.
Author: Marija Klopcic Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9086866573 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 281
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The past decade has revealed unfavourable trends in e.g. fertility, udder health and locomotion in some major dairy cattle breeds due to a large increase in production and insufficient consideration of functional traits in the breeding goals. Such unfavourable trends in some functional traits increase costs. Additionally, the enlargement of herds leads to less available labour time per individual cow. This asks for cows that are easy to handle. At the same time, society is demanding a higher welfare standard of animals. These contradicting developments have increased the desire for so called more robust animals. Robustness can be defined as 'the ability to maintain homeostasis in commonly accepted and sustainable herds of the near future'; or 'the ability of the cow to function well in the environment she lives in as well as in a wide range of climates and production systems'. This book contains a series of articles (26) dealing with the concept of robustness, including aspects like evolution, genetics, environment, animal health and welfare, and integrity. Besides the major functional traits also the links to energy balance, hot climatic conditions, and the attitude and input of stakeholders towards robustness as part of the breeding program are discussed. This book is the first attempt to summarise the available knowledge concerning this topic in cattle, making this book unique. The contributions are from authors of 16 countries from all over the world. However, the focus is presently on farm animal level, while in future robustness of the whole production system may also require additional attention.
Author: 30. BIENNAL SESSION OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR ANIMAL RECORDING (1996, Veldhoven. Performance recording of animals: proceedings) Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 365
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Animal breeding in the netherlands; Presentation by new member coutries; Tendencies of development on milk breeds in bulgaria; Dairy herd improvement services in estonia; Milk recording and genetic evalution ofcattle and buffaloes in india; Communications on the situation and evalution of milk recording in specific coutries; Reports of the task forces and sub-committees and related communications; Report of the ICAR task force on the development fund; report of the ICAR task force on world breed associations; The role of breed associations within ICAR; New developments and responsibilities in farm management systems; Eperiences with the application of the AM/PM method in the rhineland area; Report of the INTERBULL sub-committee for 1994 and 1995; Milk recordingaccuracy and its impact on genetic evaluations; Effects of the sires'coutry of origion on the genetic features of the brow breed in bulgaria; Report of the sires' coutry of origion on the genetic features of the brow breed in Bulgaria; Report of the ICAR sub-committee on milk meters and jars; Automatic cluster removal by electronic milk meters; Prediction of 305-day lactation production of Italian dairy cattle breeds; Report pf the ICAR Worling group on computer development; Joint data base system for the nordic coutries: Challenge and perpecitves; Possible consequences for french dairy farming of the ISO stards for electronic data interchange; The faz: a new mean for sending milkm records results to farmers; Calculating nutrient balaces in dairy farm milk recording systems; NRS-IRIS: A multi-user sytem ti stores and process cattle data on registration, milk recording and breeding; Pilot cattle information system in egipt; Technical change and its impact on NMR; Report of the ICAR working group on milk testing laboratories; Calibration and quality control of aoutomatic somatic cell couters using recombined milk samples; Requeriments and of the acceditation of testing laboratories for milk yield and quality control; Report of the ICAR working group on health and fertility recording: Genetic improvement pf functional traits in dairy cattle concerted action; Somatic cell count and its value for dairy cow management; Integrated veterinary herd supervision Bavarian milk recording; Current status concerning the use of milk urea concentration: Analytical methods, use in different countriesand how to utilise the results; Report of the ICAR Working group on beef perfomance; New rules for beef perfomance recording suckler herds in france; Economic and genetic evalution of a non-supervidies field test for beef production; Linking french and british limousion genetic evaluation systems; Report of the ICAR working group on goat milk recording; Milk recording of goast in the netherlands; First control and number of daily milkings influencing the goat milk recording; Report of the ICAR working group 0n milk recording of sheep: Survey of milk recording and genetic evaluation of dairy sheep; Milk yield adjustments for milking length and age-parity-month of lambing interaction in the sarda dairy sheep breed; Validation of estimated genetic trend in frenchlacaune dairy sheep evaluation; Suvey on the recording of milk perfomances of dairy buffaloes in the world; Utilisation of monthly test-date method for milk recording of egyptian buffaloes; Factors limiting regular recording of laction performence of dairy buffaloes in pakistan; Perfomance recording and future improvement of buffalo population in Bulgaria; Report of the ICAR Working group on animal indentification; Approval procedure and permanebt obasrvations in france for offical cattle ear tags; The sytem of cattle indentification in germany; Effectsof injection site and of transponder size in electronic indentification of cattel; Automation of weighing operations with electrionic ear tags; Comparasion of different devices for electronic indentification ofdairy sheep; Electronic indentification of sheep, goats and cattle using ruminal bolus; Tracing single animals for quality control purpose.
Author: Juho Kyntäjä
Author: Juho Kyntäjä
Author: International Committee for Animal Recording. Session
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Author: J.D. Sattler
Author: Everett James Warwick
Author: M. Guellouz
Author: J. Crettenand
Author: Marija Klopcic
Author: Julius Van der Werf
Author: 30. BIENNAL SESSION OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR ANIMAL RECORDING (1996, Veldhoven. Performance recording of animals: proceedings)