Fahdiga:
One day a cow will be elected as the governor of a northern state. A region where in children's nursery school books C stands for cow instead of car

Beancounter94:
Ok...

1.Kano state isn't buying Zebu cows, or fulani cows for N20000, they are buying Freisan cows...bulls...to mate with the home based cows...for science, and for improved yields, etc....

2. A bull may cost $1220...which in naira terms....502,200 naira. Five of them would cost over 2.5million naira. A bull may also cost $2000 , and five of them 4.5million naira.

3.There is some explaining to do about the remaining half of the kudi

NGpatriot:


1. I don't know you, but going by your zero knowledge about the breed in question, I do know that you are clueless and you know nothing about animal husbandry.

2. You can not ask irrelevant questions like how come they haven't done this or that simply because you don't know what they have done or haven't done and the fact that they have 2 active Animal Insemination Centres means this is not their first rodeo. They obviously know more than you. They do this for a living, but you don't.

3. You said 5 is not a commercial scale and I educated you that they are inseminating to generate thousands per year.

4. Such Government agencies conduct research to help grow and support businesses, in this case, the dairy industry, they are not necessarily selling cows. It's like the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture in Ibadan, they conduct research to come up with the best seeds, but they don't sell the seeds, they, they pass the seeds to farmers for planting.


Again, stick to your day job and let the people do their job.

You don't know anything and your ITK is getting boring and annoying.

Mrsoft3:



You did not read the news just the headlines

aribisala0:

Like I said you do not know me
You clearly had no understanding of what commercial scale meant because you said "They are not for sale"
If you know anything about dairy farming and cow breeding in general you would know it is not as simple as buying 5 Bulls and then using them for breeding thousands .
This cannot done without proven research for local reality

In this case that means resistance to trypanosomes and babesiosis and local parasites

No one will sell you quality bulls with a proven breeding pedigree for such a ridiculously low price.
EVEN THE FULANI UNDERSTAND THIS and do not sell their quality animals anyhow

In the industry today billions are spent on frozen sperm from proven bulls
These animals go for upwards of $100000 each and sometimes a lot more for one animal often

The second thing is when it comes to dairy the cow(female) pedigree is just as important as the Bull(female)
So where are the Thousands of females going to come from and what is there pedigree?
This is a knowledge intensive industry and much of the knowledge is closely guarded with patents in commercial multinational entities.
In your simple mind you think you just enter the market buy 5 Friesian bulls and start mating them with Fulani Reds and magic will happen
Milk productivity is a female trait so I am not sure the genetics teacher that told you it will be transmitted via semen