On April 17, experts from the National Animal Husbandry Station of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs came to the Wenzhou buffalo breeding farm in Pingyang to collect the purebred Wenzhou buffalo semen and make it into the national animal gene bank for long-term preservation and protecting the inheritance of Wenzhou buffalo resources.

the seed farm is the only national-level Wenzhou buffalo breeding farm in the country. Meng Fei, a livestock herder at the national animal gene bank of the National Animal Husbandry Station, introduced that through the combination of frozen semen preservation and living preservation to alleviate the effects of natural selection, inbreeding and genetic drift. In the future, if the gene of the species is mutated, it can be recovered by the preserved frozen semen.

Wenzhou buffalo has a breeding history of six or seven thousand years. It is an excellent local breed cultivated after long natural selection and artificial selection. It has potential milk performance and the milk production is higher than other buffalo breeds and enjoys a good reputation at home and abroad. In addition, Wenzhou buffalo has a smaller body size, lower feed consumption, and higher milk yield. The milk is rich in nutrients. Wenzhou buffalo included "Chinese cattle breeds" in 1988, and was included in the "National Livestock and Poultry Genetic Resources Protection List" in 2006 and 2014. The buffalo in the breeding field has no blood relationship in three generations, the blood is relatively positive, the specie is relatively pure, and the environment in Pingyang is better. The buffalo has a good development prospect.

Source: http://www.wzpy.cn

Time: 2019 .04.20