E-ISSN 2223-0343

Tape weighing in the grade calves from artificial insemination of goudali cows using dairy breeds frozen semen in Togo

Kpassi Seme1, 3*, Wéré Pitala 1, 4, Essoro Assih1, Koudoua Piklewé Alawi1, Mensah Délako Kotoe2 and Messanvi Gbeassor4

1École Supérieure d’Agronomie, Université de Lomé ESA/UL, BP: 1515 Lomé-Togo; 2Institut Togolais de Recherche Agronomique, Avétonou, Kpalimé, Togo; 3Institut de Conseil et d’Appui Technique ICAT, BP: 20804 Lomé-Togo; 4Faculté des Sciences, Université de Lomé FDS/UL, BP: 1515 Lomé-Togo

Abstract

This study evaluated tape weighing equations in grade breeds obtained from the artificial insemination of Goudali cows using Montbéliarde and Holstein dairy breeds semen. To achieve this, weighing and 3 types of measurements (chest girth, wither height and scapular-ischial length) were performed simultaneously in the morning time, from birth to three months of age at a frequency of 10 days in 46 grade calves in 6 private cattle farms in Togo. Among the three types of measurements, the chest girth and the scapular-ischial length were considered to establish the tape weighing due to their correlation with the weight. The correlation of the weight with the chest girth (r = 0.956) or the length scapular-ischial (r = 0.941) was higher than the wither height (r = 0.848). Therefore, several types of correlation between the weight and the two types of measurements (chest girth and scapular-ischial length) were compared. The tape weighing equation considered for all the animals (male and female) was a linear regression of the predicted weight (y) over the chest girth (x) and the scapular-ischial length (z): y = 0.006z2 + 0.722x – 39.798 with a coefficient of determination r2 = 0.896 and a residual standard deviation Sy = 2.388 kg. The use of the tape weighing in growing animals can provide a satisfactory accuracy of the weight without the weighing which is less practical but expensive.

Keywords: Correlations, weight; linear measurements; grade breed; Togo
 
To cite this article: Seme K, W Pitala, E Assih, KP Alawi, MD Kotoe and M Gbeassor, 2016. Tape weighing in the grade calves from artificial insemination of goudali cows using dairy breeds frozen semen in Togo. Res. Opin. Anim. Vet. Sci., 7(12): 67-71.
 
 

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