Livestock Studies
2007, Vol 47, Num, 2 (Pages: 023-030)
Use of Nucleus Herd - Moet Technique on Dairy Cattle Development
Banu YÜCEER 1 ,Ceyhan ÖZBEYAZ 1
1 Ankara Üniversitesi Veteriner Fakültesi Zootekni Anabilim Dalı - ANKARA
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While dairy cattle numbers have been reduced especially in developed countries, their production have been
increased continuously. In dairy cattle breeding, whether new technologies are being tried, or former techniques studying to
developed. Among this technologies; progeny test, nucleus herd-MOET technique, in vitro fertilisation (IVF), in vitro
embryo production (IVEP), cloning, embryo/sperm sexing with marker assisted selection (MAS). But, nucleus herd-MOET
technique is the most on studying among these. In this review, it has been discussed that use of nucleus herd-MOET
technique on dairy cattle development.
Keywords :
Nucleus herd, Improvement, MOET technique, Dairy cattle