Continuous sexed dairy F1 production to alleviate poverty: combining the economics and the genetics.

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2007
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McClintock, S
Ouma, R
Baltenweck, I
Okeyo, AM
McClintock, AE
Rege, JEO
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Abstract
We developed an economic model comparing the profitability of Kenyan peri-urban dairy smallholder production systems for different dairy breeds: purebred Friesians, F1 cows produced by AI, and by Sexed (female) in vitro fertilised, F1 Embryo Transplant (SIFET). Annual profit per cow (averaged over the cow’s lifetime) was AUD73 for naturally bred Friesians, AUD120 for F1 cows produced by artificial insemination, and AUD205 for F1 cows produced by sexed in vitro fertilised embryo transplant
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http://www.aaabg.org/livestocklibrary/2007/mcclintock041.pdf
http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/44043
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McClintock, S., Ouma, R., Baltenweck, I., Okeyo, A. M., McClintock, A. E., & Rege, J. E. O. (2007). Continuous sexed dairy F1 production to alleviate poverty: combining the economics and the genetics. In Genetic improvement: making it happen. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia, 23rd-26th September 2007. (pp. 41-44). Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics.
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University of Nairobi.
 
Department of Animal Production
 
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