Morpho-Productive Characterization of Some Tzurcana Breed Populations, White Variety, Bred in Some Zones of Transylvania

Authors

  • Stelian Vasile Dărăban Faculty of Animal Science and Biotechnologies, 400372Cluj-Napoca, 3-5 Mănăştur Street, Romania
  • Bogdan Georgescu Faculty of Animal Science and Biotechnologies, 400372Cluj-Napoca, 3-5 Mănăştur Street, Romania
  • Ioan Pădeanu Faculty of Animal Sciences and Biotechnologies, 300645 Timişoara, 119 Aradului Road, Romania
  • Sorin Voia Faculty of Animal Sciences and Biotechnologies, 300645 Timişoara, 119 Aradului Road, Romania
  • Constantin Pascal Faculty of Animal Sciences, 700490 Iaşi, 3 Mihail Sadoveanu Alleys, Romania
  • Călin Ioan Faculty of Animal Sciences, 011464 Bucharest 59 Mărăşti Boulevard, Romania

Keywords:

body weight, milk production, sheep, Tzurcana breed

Abstract

The Tzurcana breed, a rustic breed with mixed morpho-productive character, named for good “the queen of mountains”, constitutes the main ovine breed exploited in Romania, being almost 90% from the total ovine livestock bred and exploited in our country. It presents great biodiversity both as color varieties and also as ecotype, the most spread one being white variety and for that reason in this article we propose to present a study on white variety bred in farms from Bistriţa-Năsăud, Cluj, Satu Mare and Sălaj Counties. In the morpho-productive characterization we followed aspects concerning the body development and some body sizes, the wool production, the lambs’ number and milk production. In abstract, we refer to the body weight and we can say that comparing with the breed standard, in which in females it is between 35.00 and 45.00 kg, in our analyzed livestock this parameter varied between 57.12 and 66.00 kg, and in males was surpassed the standard with over 25 kg. This fact shows a tenacious work for breed massiveness increasing and other analyzed features improvement comparatively to the breed standard.

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Published

2023-11-01

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Technologies Applied in Animal Husbandry