Selective breeding of Arabian and Thoroughbred racehorses in Algeria: perceptions, objectives and practices of owners-breeders

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Autor(a) principal: Tennah,Safia
Data de Publicação: 2014
Outros Autores: Farnir,Frédéric, Kafidi,Nacerredine, Nsangou,Ibrahim Njikam, Leroy,Pascal, Antoine-Moussiaux,Nicolas
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia (Online)
Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-35982014000400188
Resumo: This survey, conducted with 461 racehorse owners-breeders in Algeria between 2009 and 2011, investigates their perceptions, objectives and practices regarding selective breeding. Racehorse breeding is a full-time professional activity for a third of interviewees. The holdings are small-sized with 77% owning one or two mares. The regular practice of mating is here used to categorize breeders according to their degree of professionalization (38.4% professional vs. 61.6% occasional breeders). Experience in the sector was also used to classify breeders, considering as "junior" the breeders under 10 years experience (38.8%) and as "senior" those above 10 years (61.2%). More than professionalization, experience shows a significant impact on practices and objectives. Thus, experience influences breed choice (junior breeders tend to specialize while senior own both Arabian and Thoroughbreds), age at first foaling (sooner among senior breeders), information sources considered for selecting stallions (senior use more diversified sources), the importance granted to the price of mating (greater for junior breeders), the importance granted to the ranking compared to earnings (the ranking being more important to junior breeders), and the priority given to breeding (junior breeders give higher priority to a buy-race-resell activity). Finally, racehorse breeding is poorly professionalized, the only financial goal being cost coverage. Despite inappropriate practices, an interest for selection is noticed.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Selective breeding of Arabian and Thoroughbred racehorses in Algeria: perceptions, objectives and practices of owners-breeders
title Selective breeding of Arabian and Thoroughbred racehorses in Algeria: perceptions, objectives and practices of owners-breeders
spellingShingle Selective breeding of Arabian and Thoroughbred racehorses in Algeria: perceptions, objectives and practices of owners-breeders
Tennah,Safia
animal-breeding
flat racing
horses
horse breeder
selection
survey
title_short Selective breeding of Arabian and Thoroughbred racehorses in Algeria: perceptions, objectives and practices of owners-breeders
title_full Selective breeding of Arabian and Thoroughbred racehorses in Algeria: perceptions, objectives and practices of owners-breeders
title_fullStr Selective breeding of Arabian and Thoroughbred racehorses in Algeria: perceptions, objectives and practices of owners-breeders
title_full_unstemmed Selective breeding of Arabian and Thoroughbred racehorses in Algeria: perceptions, objectives and practices of owners-breeders
title_sort Selective breeding of Arabian and Thoroughbred racehorses in Algeria: perceptions, objectives and practices of owners-breeders
author Tennah,Safia
author_facet Tennah,Safia
Farnir,Frédéric
Kafidi,Nacerredine
Nsangou,Ibrahim Njikam
Leroy,Pascal
Antoine-Moussiaux,Nicolas
author_role author
author2 Farnir,Frédéric
Kafidi,Nacerredine
Nsangou,Ibrahim Njikam
Leroy,Pascal
Antoine-Moussiaux,Nicolas
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Tennah,Safia
Farnir,Frédéric
Kafidi,Nacerredine
Nsangou,Ibrahim Njikam
Leroy,Pascal
Antoine-Moussiaux,Nicolas
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv animal-breeding
flat racing
horses
horse breeder
selection
survey
topic animal-breeding
flat racing
horses
horse breeder
selection
survey
description This survey, conducted with 461 racehorse owners-breeders in Algeria between 2009 and 2011, investigates their perceptions, objectives and practices regarding selective breeding. Racehorse breeding is a full-time professional activity for a third of interviewees. The holdings are small-sized with 77% owning one or two mares. The regular practice of mating is here used to categorize breeders according to their degree of professionalization (38.4% professional vs. 61.6% occasional breeders). Experience in the sector was also used to classify breeders, considering as "junior" the breeders under 10 years experience (38.8%) and as "senior" those above 10 years (61.2%). More than professionalization, experience shows a significant impact on practices and objectives. Thus, experience influences breed choice (junior breeders tend to specialize while senior own both Arabian and Thoroughbreds), age at first foaling (sooner among senior breeders), information sources considered for selecting stallions (senior use more diversified sources), the importance granted to the price of mating (greater for junior breeders), the importance granted to the ranking compared to earnings (the ranking being more important to junior breeders), and the priority given to breeding (junior breeders give higher priority to a buy-race-resell activity). Finally, racehorse breeding is poorly professionalized, the only financial goal being cost coverage. Despite inappropriate practices, an interest for selection is noticed.
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