METHOD FOR RETAINING GENOFOND OF CATTLE BREED WITH MINIMUM NUMBER OF ANIMALS Russian patent published in 2000 - IPC

FIELD: animal farming, in particular, milk-and-meat animal production. SUBSTANCE: method involves completing minimum genofond population taking into account breed genofond retention index including number of isolated farms, leading families, number of lines in breed and number of male sires, as well as such indexes as animal inbreeding, total number of cows, size of stock, effective number of genofond population; providing further selection practice. EFFECT: increased efficiency in retaining of genofond during prolonged period of time at minimum costs. 2 cl, 2 tbl, 4 ex