Siboney de Cuba
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The Siboney de Cuba is a Cuban breed of dairy cattle. It was developed from the 1970s through cross-breeding of Holstein Friesian and zebu stock, with a final genetic contribution of 5/8 from the former and 3/8 from the latter.[4] It is one of several Cuban hybrids of European (taurine) and zebuine cattle; others are the Mambi de Cuba (3/4 Holstein-Friesian, 1/4 zebu) and the Caribe (5/8 Holstein-Friesian, 3/8 Santa Gertrudis); these are grouped with the Siboney under the name Cebú Lechero.[5]: 160
In 2003 the Siboney was the principal dairy breed of Cuba.[6]: 13
History[edit]
The Siboney was developed from the 1970s to improve the milk yields of the hardy but poor yielding zebu by incorporating genes from the more productive but also more frail Holstein.[7] The result has been an economically viable (and even profitable) animal, incorporating resistance to tropical climatic stresses.[8]
References[edit]
- ^ Barbara Rischkowsky, Dafydd Pilling (editors) (2007). List of breeds documented in the Global Databank for Animal Genetic Resources, annex to The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Rome: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN 9789251057629. Archived 23 June 2020.
- ^ Breed data sheet: Siboney de Cuba / Cuba (Cattle). Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed April 2024.
- ^ Transboundary breed: Siboney. Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed April 2024.
- ^ Jan Langbein, Martin Nichelmann (1993). Differences in behaviour of free-ranging cattle in the tropical climate. Applied Animal Behaviour Science. 37 (3): 197-209. doi:10.1016/0168-1591(93)90111-2. (subscription required).
- ^ Valerie Porter, Lawrence Alderson, Stephen J.G. Hall, D. Phillip Sponenberg (2016). Mason's World Encyclopedia of Livestock Breeds and Breeding (sixth edition). Wallingford: CABI. ISBN 9781780647944.
- ^ [Grupo de Trabajo Multidisciplinario y Multinstitucional] (2003). República de Cuba: Informe de País sobre la Situación Nacional de los Recursos. Zoogenéticos en Animales de Granja de Cuba (in Spanish). La Habana: Comisión Nacional de Recursos Genéticos de la República de Cuba. Annex to: Barbara Rischkowsky, Dafydd Pilling (editors) (2007). The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Rome: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN 9789251057629. Archived 10 January 2017.
- ^ Suárez MA, Zubizarreta I & Pérez T, 'Genotype by environment interaction in “Siboney de Cuba” cattle', Livestock Research for Rural Development (2009)
- ^ McDowell, RE and' Wilk, JC and Talbott, CW, 'Economic Viability of Crosses of Bos taurus and Bos indicus for Dairying in Warm Climates', Journal of Dairy Science (1996)