Table 8: Summary of breed performance of animals used for milk production in Cameroon

  Breed

Birth weight, kg

Daily gain from 13 to 41 weeks, kg

Age at 1^st Calving, days

calving rates, %

Calving interval, days

Lactation length,
days

Number of Insemination per conception

Milk yield per day of lactation, kg

Milk yield,
kg

Mortality
birth o 36 months, %

Gudali(G)

22.5^a

0.35^a

1440

75

511

140

373

3.5

Red Fulani(RF)

21.5^a

0.43^a

76.9^b

114^b

2.4^a

513^b
295^a

4.7^c

White Fulani(WF)

22.3^a

0.27^a

76.1

444

175

2.8^a

536
465^a

4.6

Jersey( J)

16.8^a

0.39^a

924

79.5

419

315

8^a

2681

8.9 to 26

Boran(B)

600^e

2^e

315⁵

Holstein(H)

32.7^a

0.44^a

964

75.4

472

329

2.4^e

11.5^a

3202^a
3471^b
4750^e

12.7 to 38

HXG(F₁)

780

78.9

399

282

1575

6.3 to 20

HXRF (F₁)

927

87.5

403

221

1551

5.8

JXWF(F₁)

1077

78.8

382

189

1011

5.6 to 11.5

MXG (F₁)

1140

82

399

258

1380

44

N.B. superscripts relate to references
^aIEMVT (1975/76); ^bIRZ(1982,1983,1984,1985)^b; ^c Mbah (1984) and Mbah et al.(1987); ^dTawah and Mbah (1989); ^eHPI(1999);

Bayemi et al., 2005