Background: Livestock mortality impacts farmer livelihoods and household nutrition.
Capturing trends in livestock mortality at localised or national levels is essential to planning …

The first parity, or first pregnancy, of ruminant females has negative effects on offspring
during fetal, perinatal, and pre-weaning periods which ultimately lead to diminished pre …

Pre-weaning animals exit a flock through death induced by various reasons, causing
significant economic losses to the goat producers. In this study, we investigated the survival …

Avikalin is a synthetic sheep selected over the years for higher growth and fleece yield. The
objective of the present study was to evaluate the growth performance of Avikalin over 4 …

This study retrospectively investigated the effect of breed and season on the lambing/kidding
dynamics, growth performance, neonatal viability, and weaning dynamics of sheep …

Pre-weaning mortality (PM) of lambs is a worldwide economically trait of interest. It has a
negative impact on the profitability of sheep farms. However, little is known about the genetic …

Lamb survival is a critical aspect in the sheep industry as it increases the chances of
economic gain in the flock. The objective of the current study was to assess the incidence of …

The present study evaluated maternal and additive influences that contribute to phenotypic
variation in various growth traits in Munjal sheep. The targeted traits that pertained to 2278 …

This study aimed to explore the impact of genomic imprinting on the genetic variance of
composite reproductive traits across three parities in Baluchi sheep. The traits analyzed …

The limitation in feed availability in the semi-arid region during the lean period can result in
a variation of the body condition, body weight of pregnant ewe which in turn may affect the …