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Tape
weighing
in the grade
calves from artificial insemination of goudali cows using dairy breeds
frozen semen in Togo
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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
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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.
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Keywords:
Correlations, weight; linear measurements; grade
breed; Togo |
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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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