Several scientific publications have highlighted the importance of feeding management
practices in improving the nutritional properties of milk from dairy ewes. Meat production …

The objective of the present review was (i) to survey different approaches for choosing the
complex of traits for which economic values (EVs) are calculated,(ii) to call attention to the …

The economic value of a trait in a breeding objective can be defined as the value of a unit
change in an individual trait, while keeping all other traits constant and are widely used in …

Twenty dairy sheep farms of Assaf breed, located in the Spanish autonomous community of
Castilla y León and included in a group receiving technical support, were used to study their …

The objectives of this study were to identify the breeding objectives of Begaria cattle
keepers. A semi-structured questionnaire, live animal ranking, and focus group discussions …

Market failures are the main cause of poor acknowledgement of the true impact of functional
sheep traits on the management and economic performance of farms, which results in their …

Dairy sheep farming is a significant agricultural sector in Mediterranean countries, providing
income and employment opportunities in less-favoured areas (LFAs). The economic …

The impact of variation in production traits, and inputs costs and product prices on economic
efficiency of a multi-purpose sheep breed farmed in a marginal area of Slovakia was …

In Italy, in ten years, the national production of sheep's cheese has gone from 60 thousand
tons to almost 80 thousand tons at present, a sign of a lively dynamism of the sector mainly …

Generally, all traits of economic importance should be included in the breeding goal of
livestock breeding programmes. The main aim of this study was to examine economic …