STUDY OF BUFFALO BREEDING AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN MIDDLE AND SOUTH OF IRAQ IN THE THROUGH 2019 -2020

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karah bettT Odis Baghdasar.
Abdul Amir Abdullah Isa
Nidal Hussein Abdul Qader
Nasr Nuri Al-Anbari
Rafid Fadel Kazem
taif  nahid hamad
saddam thais ribash
Fadel Jafar Hashem
Ronaq Abdul Hafiz Mahdi

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This study was conducted in 6 Iraqi governorates which were Baghdad (middle), Babylon and Najaf (Alfurat Alawsat), and Thi–Qar, Maysan and Basrah (south), it included 60 buffalo owners chosen randomly within the period 2019–2020 through field visits with questionnaires about breeding system, feeding system, body cooling methods, most important diseases affecting buffalo herds in these regions and agricultural land possession.
The information was updated each 3 months through the year. SAS program used for statistical analysis for collected data. The total number of buffalo was ranged (1491) heads in Al furat Alawsat and (6497) heads in the south of Iraq while in Baghdad was (3707) heads.
The results revealed that the semi closed system was dominant (76.66 %) in all governorates followed by the open system (20.0 %) while closed system was (3.33 %) and these differences was highly significant. The buffalo owners who possess the agricultural land was less (28.33 %) than those who do not (71.66 %).
Regarding the cooling methods the results showed that using river water was higher (71.66 %) than using marshes water (11.32 % )in (p< 0.01).
The feeding system, the highest percentage was forage (42.75 %) followed by roughage (39.85 %) and the lowest west was concentrate diet (11.32 %) and these differences was highly significant. Finally we found that FMD was recorded as higher percentage of diseases affecting buffalo herds (53.01 %), followed by brucellosis (25.30 %) while we did not finding one infected with tuberculosis (0 %) in studied herds.
Key words: Iraqi buffaloes, Buffalo breeding, Buffalo feeding, Diseases, Closed system

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STUDY OF BUFFALO BREEDING AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN MIDDLE AND SOUTH OF IRAQ IN THE THROUGH 2019 -2020. (2022). Iraqi Journal of Agricultural Research, 26(1), 82 to 90. https://doi.org/10.65814/ijar.2022.26.1.82

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