ANALYTICAL STUDY FOR THE NUMBER OF IRAQI BUFFALO (Bubalus bubalis) IN MIDDLE AND SOUTH OF IRAQ

Abstract

This study was conducted in three Iraqi regions: 1.middle (Baghdad) 2.Alforat Alawsat (Babylon and Najaf) and 3. south (Thi-Qar, Maysan and Basrah), involving 60 buffalo owners were chosen randomly during 2019 -2020, there was field visits every three months with questionnaire which included the total number of herd, number of adult females and males and number of female and male calves, using SAS for statistical analysis of above data. The study revealed that there was a significant increase in total herd number and number of adult females (0.05 >أ) in all periods(every three months)in all regions, while no significant differences in number of adult males ,but there was a significant increase in number of female calves in 3rd periods and number of male calves inperiods 1stand 2nd at 5% as (71.88±11.95,7.83±25.39,56.59±5.08) (36.64±3.74,65.17±19.97,28.48±4.33) in the three regions respect tively. The significant increase from periods1st to 2nd(0.05 > أ) occurred in total number of herd and number of male calves also a significant increase from periods 2nd to 3rd happened in total number of herd and number of female and male calves, we found a significant increase from periods 1st to 3rd in total number of herd and number of female calves was (25.35, 60.17, 31.67) (27.76, 38.33, 18.86) in all regions respectively. The conclusion of study was that the increasing in total number of herd was (6.55, 8.36) in 1st to 2nd periods and in 2nd to 3rd periods at straight , so the total number of herds from 1st to 3rd periods in all regions reached to 13659 head with growth rate reached to 14.38% .
Keywords: (Iraqi buffaloes, Location effect, Buffalo population, Herd size, Number of adult female)