Prioritising Support for Cost Effective Rare Breed Conservation Using Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
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Reading Between the Lines Dane Outreach Has Become Extremely
Reading Between The Lines (Or, separating fact from fiction) Dane Outreach has become extremely concerned about the large volume of incorrect information unknowledgeable, unethical, or uncaring and unscrupulous breeders* are giving to the potential Dane purchaser about Great Danes. Much of this misinformation is used as a “selling point” by puppy mills and backyard breeders to the uninformed Dane purchaser. The first line of defense for the potential purchaser would be to do their homework and educate themselves on the Great Dane breed. There are many excellent articles at www.gdca, www.DaneOutreach.com and www.ginnie.com on Great Danes. Below are some of the claims commonly used by unethical breeders and correct information for item. Rare or Unusual Colors No such thing! While some of the Great Dane colors may be more common than others, the breed does not have “rare” or “unusual” colors. Dogs labeled “rare” are almost always mismarks, considered a disqualification by the breed standard, cannot be shown, and in general should not be bred. Great Danes come in six recognized colors (fawn, brindle, black, blue, harlequin and mantle) and are divided into five color families (1. fawn/brindle, 2. black out of black breeding, 3. black out of blue breeding, 4. black out of harlequin breeding, 5. harlequin). The Great Dane Club of America is very specific on what color families can and cannot be bred together. Crossing color families can result in “off” or mismarked colors. While these dogs can certainly go on to make excellent pets, the colors are not desired, cannot be shown, never should be bred and should not be considered a desirable trait. -
A Survey of Relationships Among Rare Breeds Of
A SURVEY OF RELATIONSHIPS AMONG RARE BREEDS OF SWINE _______________________________________ A Thesis presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School at the University of Missouri-Columbia _______________________________________________________ In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Science _____________________________________________________ by KIZZI ROBERTS Dr. William Lamberson, Thesis Supervisor December 2014 The undersigned, appointed by the dean of the Graduate School, have examined the thesis entitled A SURVEY OF RELATIONSHIPS AMONG RARE BREEDS OF SWINE presented by Kizzi Roberts, a candidate for the degree of master of science and hereby certify that, in their opinion, it is worthy of acceptance. Professor William Lamberson Professor Timothy Safranski Professor Matthew Gompper Thanks Mom and Dad. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to acknowledge and thank my advisor Dr. Bill Lamberson for all of his help and support over the years as I worked toward completing my degree. I could not have asked for a better mentor and professor. A big thank you to my committee members Dr. Tim Safranski and Dr. Matthew Gompper for their support and patience as I worked toward finishing my thesis. I appreciate their willingness to work with me and their contributions toward helping me complete this process. I would also like to thank Tasia Taxis, my fellow graduate student, for all of her support and guidance during this process. Thank you to Cinda Hudlow for being an outstanding resource for all things related to graduate -
Gwartheg Prydeinig Prin (Ba R) Cattle - Gwartheg
GWARTHEG PRYDEINIG PRIN (BA R) CATTLE - GWARTHEG Aberdeen Angus (Original Population) – Aberdeen Angus (Poblogaeth Wreiddiol) Belted Galloway – Belted Galloway British White – Gwyn Prydeinig Chillingham – Chillingham Dairy Shorthorn (Original Population) – Byrgorn Godro (Poblogaeth Wreiddiol). Galloway (including Black, Red and Dun) – Galloway (gan gynnwys Du, Coch a Llwyd) Gloucester – Gloucester Guernsey - Guernsey Hereford Traditional (Original Population) – Henffordd Traddodiadol (Poblogaeth Wreiddiol) Highland - Yr Ucheldir Irish Moiled – Moel Iwerddon Lincoln Red – Lincoln Red Lincoln Red (Original Population) – Lincoln Red (Poblogaeth Wreiddiol) Northern Dairy Shorthorn – Byrgorn Godro Gogledd Lloegr Red Poll – Red Poll Shetland - Shetland Vaynol –Vaynol White Galloway – Galloway Gwyn White Park – Gwartheg Parc Gwyn Whitebred Shorthorn – Byrgorn Gwyn Version 2, February 2020 SHEEP - DEFAID Balwen - Balwen Border Leicester – Border Leicester Boreray - Boreray Cambridge - Cambridge Castlemilk Moorit – Castlemilk Moorit Clun Forest - Fforest Clun Cotswold - Cotswold Derbyshire Gritstone – Derbyshire Gritstone Devon & Cornwall Longwool – Devon & Cornwall Longwool Devon Closewool - Devon Closewool Dorset Down - Dorset Down Dorset Horn - Dorset Horn Greyface Dartmoor - Greyface Dartmoor Hill Radnor – Bryniau Maesyfed Leicester Longwool - Leicester Longwool Lincoln Longwool - Lincoln Longwool Llanwenog - Llanwenog Lonk - Lonk Manx Loaghtan – Loaghtan Ynys Manaw Norfolk Horn - Norfolk Horn North Ronaldsay / Orkney - North Ronaldsay / Orkney Oxford Down - Oxford Down Portland - Portland Shropshire - Shropshire Soay - Soay Version 2, February 2020 Teeswater - Teeswater Wensleydale – Wensleydale White Face Dartmoor – White Face Dartmoor Whitefaced Woodland - Whitefaced Woodland Yn ogystal, mae’r bridiau defaid canlynol yn cael eu hystyried fel rhai wedi’u hynysu’n ddaearyddol. Nid ydynt wedi’u cynnwys yn y rhestr o fridiau prin ond byddwn yn eu hychwanegu os bydd nifer y mamogiaid magu’n cwympo o dan y trothwy. -
SMALLHOLDERS SATURDAY SALE Monmouthshire Livestock
SMALLHOLDERS SATURDAY SALE Monmouthshire Livestock Auctioneers held the inaugural sale of Rare and Minority breed Livestock and Poultry on Saturday 17th September which attracted an entry of over 700 lots with a fantastic array of Livestock and poultry on offer. The sale commenced with poultry equipment which saw a portable hen house sell for £260 with arcs achieving £125. Equipment was easily sold with feeders, drinkers and poultry crates generally £15 - £30. The sale of poultry saw in excess of 150 lots offered for sale with all categories easily sold. The highlight of this section was a pair of Emu which sold for £250 each. Large fowl saw Lavender Orpington Pullets achieve £30, Cream Legbar Pullets £26, Marans £21, Wyandottes £21, Buff Sussex £24, Leghorns £22, Welsummers £18. Waterfowl saw geese achieve £20, White Campbells £19, Coloured Runners £17 and Magpie Calls £25. Bantams sold to £36 for Light Sussex, £26 Silver Wyandottes and £24 Coloured Pekins. The sale of tools and machinery saw a David Brown 885 achieve £1800, IW livestock trailer £925, Sheep trimming stand £180. The sale also included 110 lots of new small tools and equipment which all sold to a competitive crowd of buyers. The sale of Rare and Minority Breed Livestock saw an entry of over 400 sheep, 20 pigs, 25 goats and 5 cattle with in excess of 30 breeds represented. The sale of pigs saw a landrace sow with 13 piglets sell for 380gns. A pedigree British Lop gilt achieved 150gns followed by an Oxford Sandy and Black gilt selling for 145gns. -
The Russian Orloff Chicken They Are Somewhat Rare in the U.S
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Study Looking at the Breed of Dam of Calves Recorded with BCMS Web
EBLEX Report: Analysis of “Breed of Dam” for cattle recorded with BCMS 2003-2013 Samuel Boon, EBLEX, May 2014 (Version 1) Introduction The breed makeup of the nation’s suckler cows influences not just the beef produced and sold to consumers, but also the productivity and ultimately profitability of those farming systems in which cattle are born and reared. EBLEX asked the British Cattle Movement Service (BCMS) for a breakdown of the dams of calves recorded on the database on the basis of their breed. BCMS is part of the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) It is recognised that an analysis of this type of farmer derived data has some limitations. Where crossbreeding arises there is a tendency for the most valuable breed to be reported on the passport. This approach would favour the reporting of certain beef breeds – which may only account for 50% of the genetic makeup of the suckler cow. In the reporting of dairy breeds similar bias may arise. However, this is a large dataset and for the most part recording protocols have remained consistent over time so relative change over the last decade is still relevant to those interested in assessing which breeds and crosses are influencing the UK beef supply. Methodology BCMS data relates to passport applications received for live and dead animals born in Great Britain. Imported cattle are excluded from the data. Cows producing twins or calving twice within the year will be counted more than once. BCMS report 239 different breed codes. It is understood that these codes/breed types are determined by Breed Societies. -
Genetic Cryopreservation of Rare Breeds of Domesticated North American Livestock: Smithsonian & SVF Biodiversity Preservatio
diversity Communication Genetic Cryopreservation of Rare Breeds of Domesticated North American Livestock: Smithsonian & SVF Biodiversity Preservation Project Sarah C. Bowley 1,2,*, Pierre Comizzoli 3, Kevin A. Lindell 1,2, David J. Matsas 1,2 and Eugene C. White 1,2 1 SVF Foundation, 152 Harrison Ave., Newport, RI 02840, USA; [email protected] (K.A.L.); [email protected] (D.J.M.); [email protected] (E.C.W.) 2 Department of Environmental and Population Health, Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, 200 Westboro Rd, North Grafton, MA 01536, USA 3 Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute National Zoological Park, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 5502, Washington, WA 20013-7012, USA; [email protected] * Correspondence: sarah@svffoundation.org; Tel.: +14-016-395-175; Fax: +14-018-485-515 Received: 17 September 2019; Accepted: 16 October 2019; Published: 18 October 2019 Abstract: Modern agriculture has responded to the growing pressure for animal-protein consumption in the global human population by selecting for specific production traits, which, over the last fifty years, has resulted in a loss of genetic diversity. Most rare and endangered breeds of livestock have not experienced the same selection pressures for production and therefore may contain useful genetic traits not found within modern breeds. In an effort to maintain biodiversity of livestock breeds, the SVF Foundation, a non-profit organization founded to preserve the genetic diversity of food and fiber livestock, has established an ex situ repository of genetic material from endangered North American cattle, sheep, and goats. This genetic material includes in vivo and in vitro produced embryos, semen, fibroblasts, serum, and whole blood DNA cards. -
Ireland's Rare Breeds
IRELAND’S RARE BREEDS A CASE STUDY Ireland’s Rare Breeds What are Rare Breeds? Rare breeds are a breed of livestock or poultry that have a very small breeding population left. Due to their small population numbers, the conservation status of the rare breed can be identified as high. Organisations have been/ are set up devoted to the conservation of these rare breeds, protecting and promoting the breed to help save it from extinction. Some indigenous, native or rare breeds associated to old Ireland are: Equines (Horses), such as the Connemara Pony, the Kerry Bog Pony and the Irish Draught; Bovines (Cattle), such as the Irish Moiled cattle, Kerry Cattle and Dexters; Ovines (Sheep), such as the Galway Sheep. How do these breeds become rare? After the war Ireland’s farmers sought to become more efficient in their farming practices. New breeds were introduced at the expense of Irish indigenous (native) stock. Farmers became aware that with the introduction of more profitable/ efficient breeds – e.g. the Holstein-Friesian – that native breeds such as the Irish Moiled became undisputedly viewed as a highly unprofitable breed in comparison to the high milk yield of the Holstein-Friesian. The introduction of ‘selective breeding’ during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries improved the genetic characteristics of animals, such as their weight, milk yield, leanness and speed of maturity in order to improve profit. As a result of this, many Irish breeds became extinct and only a few native breeds remain today. Animal breeds that were native to old Ireland and have become extinct are: Ulster Large White Pig unsuitable for live transport. -
BCMS Tips to Receive Your Passport Quicker
Important Deadline to apply for a cattle passport You must register the calf within 27 days of birth. Applications received after this time will be refused. Cattle Tracing System (CTS) Online Tips to receive your CTS Online is the easiest way to apply for cattle passports. Your passport quicker information is checked before you submit it to reduce the risk of errors. To register for this free service email Ear tag [email protected] You must double tag your calf Submitting your before applying for a cattle application form passport. If you have any issues Paper forms should be sent to: please contact BCMS to discuss. British Cattle Movement Service PO Box 301 Breed SHEFFIELD You need to go along the S95 1AB bloodline of the sire to determine If you do not want to receive paper the breed. The official breed code application forms please let us list is available on GOV.UK know. Self Service Line Commonly confused You can also apply for a cattle passport using our Self Service breed codes Line, an automated phone line Use BRB or BRBX for British open 24 hours a day, 7 days a Blue or British Blue Cross. week. Call 0345 011 1212, or Dam The Belgian Blue breed 0345 011 1213 for the Welsh code is no longer used. language line. The dam must: • be registered on the Cattle State LIM or LIMX for Errors on application forms Tracing System as female Limousin or Limousin Cross. Any error must be corrected • be alive at the time of calving Shorthorn should be stated before the passport is produced. -
Download the Old Irish Goat Flyer
Acknowledgements The The Old Irish Goat Society gratefully acknowledges the Old Irish Goat The Old Irish Goat, Mulranny, Co Mayo. support and assistance toward research and conservation of the Old Irish Goat provided by the following: . Gift of Hands - Mulranny . Essence of Mulranny Studio . Rescue & Conservation of Endangered Breeds Utah, USA . The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine Agricultural Genetic Resources Committee . South West Mayo Development Company . Mayo, Galway and Longford County Councils . The Heritage Council . The Smurfit Genetic Institute, Trinity College Dublin . Weatherbys DNA Laboratory The Old Irish Goat, Mulranny, County Mayo. Poulnabrone Portal Dolman, the Burren, County Clare. University College Dublin Known historically as “the poor man’s cow”, the goat was, . The Natural Museums of Dublin, London, Scotland, What is an Old Irish Goat? by virtue of its hardiness, a crucial component of Ireland’s Wales and the Isle of Man The Old Irish Goat is Ireland’s indigenous, landrace breed of past farming and rural life. Indeed, this breed ensured the . The American Ireland Fund goat. The term “landrace” refers here to the fact that the survival of Ireland's earliest settlers and whole village . The Western People breed has been naturally shaped by the Irish landscape and communities, it also helped some families stave of starvation climate since its arrival, approximately 5,000 years ago, in Text by Seán Carolan, Ray Werner and Maeve Foran when potato crops repeatedly failed. The Old Irish Goat is the Neolithic Age. This has resulted in a highly adapted, cold Image acknowledgements as per appearance deservedly celebrated in Irish folklore, tradition, paintings weather, small and stocky goat with short, strong legs and a Cover, 17. -
Submission to Cap Strategy on Behalf of the Irish Rare Breeds Society Clg
SUBMISSION TO CAP STRATEGY ON BEHALF OF THE IRISH RARE BREEDS SOCIETY CLG. The objective of the IRBS is to preserve rare breeds that are true to type with a pure genetic pool. Irish Rare domestic Breeds represent an opportunity to achieve many of the existing draft proposals: The current draft proposals will focus on nine specific objectives; 1. support viable farm income and resilience across the EU territory to enhance food security; 2. enhance market orientation and increase competitiveness including greater focus on research, technology and digitalisation; 3. Improve farmers' position in the value chain; 4. Contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation, as well as sustainable energy; 5. Foster sustainable development and efficient management of natural resources such as water, soil and air; 6. Contribute to the protection of biodiversity, enhance ecosystem services and preserve habitats and landscapes; 7. Attract young farmers and facilitate business development in rural areas; 8. Promote employment, growth, social inclusion and local development in rural areas, including bio-economy and sustainable forestry; 9. Improve the response of EU agriculture to societal demands on food and health, including safe, nutritious and sustainable food, as well as animal welfare. Native Irish domestic Rare Breeds are uniquely placed to facilitate these goals. They represent an important part of our economic and social history. They are an invaluable heritage not simply a commodity to be marketed in the same way as entirely commercial breeds. Today traditional farming practices have been undergoing rapid change with increasing emphasis on larger farms and intensive commercial options. However Ireland should have a lot more to offer. -
Animal Genetic Resources Information Bulletin
i CONTENTS EDITORIAL ........................................................................................................................................... iii GUIDE TO CONTRIBUTORS ................................................................................................................ v RUMINANT LIVESTOCK GENETIC RESOURCES IN CYPRUS A. Constantinou ..................................................................................................................................... 1 THE NATIVE PIG OF SRI LANKA R. Rajamahendran, V. Ravindran, L.A. Goonewardene, P. Sahaayaruban and A.S.B. Rajaguru ............. 9 THE BARROSO CATTLE OF GUATEMALA R. A. Melgar, Romeo Solano and Jorge De Alba ................................................................................. 15 HUNGARIAN ACTIVITIES ON THE CONSERVATION OF DOMESTIC ANIMAL GENETIC RESOURCES Imre Bodó ............................................................................................................................................ 19 PRESERVATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF ONGOLE CATTLE Mullapudi Narendra Nath ..................................................................................................................... 27 THE CONSERVATION OF ANIMAL GENETIC RESOURCES IN GREAT BRITAIN Lawrence Alderson .............................................................................................................................. 31 NEWS ITEMS .....................................................................................................................................