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Record W3018642714 · doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e03840

Survival analysis and reproductive performance of Dorper x Tumele sheep

2020· article· en· W3018642714 on OpenAlex
Zeleke Tesema, Belay Deribe, Alemu Kefale, Mekonnen Tilahun, Mekonnen Shibesh, Negus Belayneh, Asres Zegeye, Getachew Worku, Liuel Yizengaw

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Bibliographic record

VenueHeliyon · 2020
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicGenetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersAlberta Agricultural Research Institute
KeywordsCrossbreedDomestic sheep reproductionWeaningBiologyLitterFlockAnimal scienceVeterinary medicineBirth weightMortality rateDemographyPregnancyMedicineAgronomyEcology

Abstract

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Productivity and profitability of sheep farming are highly influenced by lamb survival and ewe reproductive performance. Thus, this study was conducted to evaluate the survival and reproductive performance of crossbred sheep. Data collected from 2009 to 2018 from Sirinka sheep breeding stations were utilized for this study. Survival analysis was conducted by using Survival Kit 6.12 software with the Weibull model and the general linear model of SAS 9.0 was used to analyze reproductive traits. The overall mean survival rate of Dorper x Tumele crossbred lambs at 3, 6 and 12 months of age were 86.0, 76.6, and 67.9%, respectively. About 46.8% of mortality from the total death was observed during the first 120 days of life. Gastrointestinal parasites, pneumonia and septicemia were the major causes of lamb mortality. Birth weight, birth type, sex and year of lambing were the most important risk factors for survival of crossbred lambs. The overall least-squares means for litter size at birth, litter size at weaning, total litter weight at birth and total litter weight at weaning were 1.10 lambs, 0.94 lambs, 3.28 kg and 15.5 kg, respectively. Birth type, sex and year of lambing were the most determinants of ewe productive traits. Tumele and their crossbred sheep had good mothering ability necessary to successfully raise lambs to weaning. The current crossbreeding program which aims to improving growth performance had a positive influence on the survival rate of lambs. Improvement of environmental in the flock, special care for small lambs and indirect selection based on birth weight would lead to further survival improvement.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.300
Threshold uncertainty score0.292

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.224
Teacher spread0.213 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it