7TH BALKAN CONFERENCE

ON ANIMAL SCIENCE

BALNIMALCON 2015

Book of Abstracts

Sarajevo
June 3 6, 2015
 7TH BALKAN CONFERENCE ON ANIMAL SCIENCE

organized by
Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences, University of Sarajevo,
Bosnia and Herzegovina
in cooperation with
Namik Kemal University, Republic of Turkey

Honorary Board

, Rector, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and

Herzegovina;
Prof. Dr. Osman
Republic of Turkey

Organizing Committee

Prof. Dr. Muhamed Brka, President, Faculty of Agriculture and Food

Sciences, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina;
, Deputy President, Namik Kemal University,
;
, Dean, Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences,
University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina;
, Dean of Agriculture Faculty, Namik

, Faculty of Agriculture and Food

Sciences, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina;
, Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences,
University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina;
, Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences,
University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina;
Prof. Dr. Stanko I , Faculty of Agriculture, Mostar, Bosnia and
Herzegovina;
, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Banja Luka,
Bosnia and Herzegovina;
Hanefija Topuz, Ministry of Agriculture, Water Management and Forestry
of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina;

Herzegovina
 Scientific Committee

, President, Faculty of Agriculture, University of

Zagreb, Croatia;
, Deputy President, Faculty of Agriculture
and Food Sciences, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina;
, , Faculty of
Agriculture, University of Belgrade, Serbia;
, Prof. Dr. Pero Miji , Faculty of Agriculture,
Josip Juraj Strossmayer University, Osijek, Croatia;
, Faculty of
Agriculture, University of Novi Sad, Serbia;
, Biotechnical Faculty, University of
Montenegro, Montenegro;
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Parride D'Ottavio
Dipartmento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari ed Ambientali, Italy;
Prof. Dr. Drago Kompan, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana,
Slovenia;
Prof. Dr. Horia Grosu, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary
Medicine, Bucharest, Romania;
Prof. Dr. , Namik Kemal
University, ;
Prof. Dr. Andreas Georgoudis, Aristotle University, Faculty of Agriculture,
Department of Animal Production, Animal Genetics and Breeding,
thessaloniki, Greece;
Prof. Dr. Zoran Popovski, Prof. Dr. Sreten Andonov, Ss. Cyril and
Methodius University in skopje, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Food,
F.Y.Republic of Macedonia;
Prof. Dr. Svetlana Georgieva, Prof. Dr. Nikolai Todorov, Prof. Dr.
Radoslav Slavov, Agriculture Faculty, Trakya University, Stara Zagora,
Bulgaria;
-
, Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences, University of
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina;
, Onsekiz Mart University,
ale, Republic of Turkey,
Prof. Dr. Kristaq Kume, Albania

Conference Website: http://balnimalcon.nku.edu.tr/

Applicability of non-feed removal molting programs instead of
conventional feed withdrawal method in brown layer hens 27

The effects of initial chick weight and dietary symbiotic

supplementation on growth performance, gastro intestinal tract
development, ileal histomorphology and caecal pathogen
microorganism in broiler chickens 28

Determination of muscle fiber types of native sheep breeds in Turkey 29

Kuran, M.

A Short Review: Large Carnivore Damage Pressure on Livestock in

European Countries 30
Yilmaz, O., Coskun, F., Ertugrul, M.

GENETICS, BREEDING AND BIOMETRY - Oral

presentations
Milk yield of different genotype goats 32

The effect of DGAT1 on milk production traits in Turkish Holstein

and Jersey cattle breeds 33

Molecular genetic application in animal nutrition: Nutrigenomics 34

Comparison of fattening performance of fat tailed and thin tailed

sheep breeds 35
Karabacak, A., Boztepe, S.

Quantitative trait loci of reproductive trait in cattle 36

Das, H., Paksoy, Z.
GENETICS, BREEDING AND BIOMETRY

Oral presentations
The effect of DGAT1 on milk production traits in Turkish Holstein and
Jersey cattle breeds
1 2 3
, Kul, E.4, Abaci, S.H.5,
6
1
Uludag University, Faculty of Veterinary-Medicine, Department of
Genetics, Bursa, Turkey; 2Namik Kemal University, Faculty of Agriculture,
Department of Animal Science, Tekirdag, Turkey; 3Ordu University, Faculty
of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Ordu, Turkey; 4Ahi Evran
University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department ,
5
Turkey; Ondokuz Mayis University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of
Animal Science, Samsun, Turkey; 6Ataturk University, Faculty of
Agriculture, Department of Animal Science, Erzurum, Turkey

Summary

This research has been carried out to determine the effect of a Acyl-
coAdiacylglycerol acyltransferase1 (DGAT1) on milk yield and milk
component traits in Turkish Holstein and Jersey breed cows raised in the
commercial farms located in Black-Sea regions of Turkey. Milk samples
were recorded as the test day milk yield and adjusted based 305 day milk and
also milk fat and protein contents were analyzed by MilkoScan FT1 milk
analyzer. DNA was isolated from about 156 Holstein and 272 Jersey cows.
411 bp fragment in DGAT1 gene was amplified and the animals were
genotyped by using RFLP-PCR technique. The allele and genotypic
frequencies of EaeI gene polymorphism were calculated. The possible
association were also evaluated between the DGAT1 genotypes and dairy
traits. Three DGAT1 SNP genotypes (KK, KA, and AA) were identified at
position of 232th amino acid located in untranslated region of the gene. As a
result, the genotypic frequencies of KK were much higher than others in two
populations. Particularly the KK allele coding lysine appeared to be favorable
for fat percentage of the milk in both breeds (P<0.01). On the other hand, test
day milk yield was much higher in Jersey cows carrying the KA allele
(P<0.01). Therefore, it is better to determine reasonable selective objective to
improve herd production level based on economical aspect.

This study was part of the project supported by Tubitak; Project # 110 O 821.

Key words: DGAT1, Turkish Holstein, Jersey, Polymorphism, Milk

production