Preliminary analysis on hybrid vigor in Indonesian indigenous and crossbred cattle population using data from published studies

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Preliminary analysis on hybrid vigor in Indonesian

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Preliminary analysis on hybrid vigor in Indonesian indigenous

and crossbred cattle population using data from published

studies

S Prastowo1, TSM Widi2, N Widyas1*),

1

Animal Science Department, Sebelas Maret University, Surakarta Indonesia 2

Department of Animal Production, Animal Science Faculty, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta Indonesia

*)

E-mail : nwidyas@gmail.com

Abstract. Hybrid vigor or heterosis is the phenomenon where a crossbreed progeny has better performance compared to its parents. Heterosis can be quantified relative to the mid-parents value or relative to one of its parent’s population average by crossing two breeds. Crossbreeding is aimed to increase the production performance of local breeds. According to the Indonesian government policy, crossbreeding program is one of main strategies to achieve meat self-sufficiency. We explore the possibilities observing of heterosis exhibited by crossing Bali and Peranakan Onggole (PO) cattle as local breed with the exotic breed based on the published data. In this paper, growth and reproductive traits from Bali and PO from year 2000-2010 were used for analysis. Moreover, Limousine and Simmental exotic breed data were collected from official information of artificial insemination (AI) centre. Data in growth trait (chest girth, mature weight, weaning weight and yearling weight) in all breeds and their crosses were then analysed using standard heterosis estimation method. Result, shows that crossbred offspring perform better in the growth trait in relative to Bali and PO as local breed. implementing crossbreeding program [1]. Local or indigenous breeds have lower production performance compared to the exotic ones; however, they excel in the fitness and robustness against local environment and resources [2,3]. Although exotic breeds might originally have higher productive capacity, without the ability to adapt, the desired performance will be far from expectation. Studies had been made to learn about crossbreeding of local cattle (Bali and PO) with exotic Taurus and Indicus breeds. They reported that crossbred cattle indeed perform better in production traits such as growth traits [4–7] and vital statistics [4,7,8] but they have poor reproductive performance [4,9]. Crossbreeding is expected to be a solution to bring out the advantages of different breeds as well as to overcome within breed weakness.

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breeds, the former type of heterosis is more relevant. Presenting the difference of characteristics among breeds in heterosis term is more feasible for further and advanced analyses from genetics and economic perspectives. This paper explores existing studies on the characteristic of both indigenous and crossbred cattle in Indonesia and presents them in term of heterosis relative to the indigenous parents.

2. Study methods

Mean and standard deviation data are collected from growth and reproduction related traits from studies on Bali and PO cows and their crosses during the year of 2000 – 2010. Presented in table 1 are girth of chest (CG) and mature weight (MW) on PO cows. All crosses were from female PO crossed

with Bos taurus males using artificial insemination (AI). Semen for AI was produced in Government

AI facilities. Information of Taurus semen in this paper was obtained from Singosari AI centre in East Java, CG and MW are obtained from official catalogue. The mature weight (MW) variable was estimated based on the Chest girth, thus was named estimated mature weight (EMW). Least square means corrected for the origin of the data effect are presented in table 1 and 2.

Table 1. Phenotype data on PO-cross

Breed Pedigree CG (cm) EMW (Kg)

Limousine sire crossed with PO dam (via AI)

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Simmental sire crossed with PO dam (via AI)

Data from Bali cows on weaning weight (WW) and yearling weight (YW) are presented in Table 2.

Data were tabulated from published papers. Bali cows’ data are the averages of many observations in

different areas around the island of Bali; whereas pure Taurus and Indicus data were obtained from Singosari AI centre catalogue.

Table 2. Phenotype data on Bali cows and the crosses

Breed WW (Kg) YW (Kg)

Cross between Simmental sire and Bali dam

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Cross between Limousine sire and Bali dam

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Cross between Brahman sire and Bali dam

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Considering the purpose of crossbreeding in Indonesia is to increase the production performance of indigenous cattle, we used standard heterosis (= economic/useful heterosis) estimation method as follows:

𝑈𝐻(%) = 𝐹̅̅̅−𝑠𝑡𝑑1

𝑠𝑡𝑑 × 100 (1)

where UH is the percentage of standard heterosis, 𝐹₁ is the performance of immediate offspring and

std is the standard breed phenotype. In this study standard breed referred to PO and Bali.

Results and discussions

This paper focused on the crossing of indigenous PO and Bali cows with exotic sires, however, the available information between the crosses differ. Records on chest girth and estimated mature weight were available for PO crosses while for Bali crosses, only data from weaning weight and yearling weights were presented. First step taken in analyzing the data was performance comparison among breeds to confirm the presence of heterosis that is when the crossbred offspring perform better than the standard. In this case, the standard was the performance of local dam populations.

Figure 1. Performance of PO cows and the crosses

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Figure 2. Performance of Bali cows and the crosses

The performance of Bali cows and the crosses are presented in Figure 2 (same explanations as Figure 1 apply). The presence of heterosis is confirmed by the fact that offspring’s performance excelled its average dam population in all traits.

Table 3. Usefull (standard) heterosis for both crossbred

Standard Breed UH (%)

PO CG MW

LimPO 4.80 22.00

SimPO 7.14 25.41

Bali WW YW

SimBal 53.03 37.85

LimBal 49.70 36.00

BrahBal 34.76 21.23

POBal 29.83 14.03

The amount of heterosis varied among breeds and traits. In PO cross, CG trait has lower heterosis compared to MW trait while in Bali cross WW has higher heterosis than YW trait. The degree of heterosis depends on the genetic constitution of the traits. Traits with lower heritability tend to have more benefit from heterosis. Weaning weight on cattle are reported to have lower heritability while yearling weight has moderate heritability [11,12]. On the other hand, the relatedness distance among breed also has an effect in heterosis. The further away parental breeds in the phylogenic tree, the heterosis will be higher [10].

Conclusions

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crossbred animals are also differed. Further analysis on the origin as well as the prediction of the economic value of the heterosis shall be made to understand its genetic background and economic efficiency as to weigh between the lost and benefit of undergoing a crossbreeding program.

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