EMBRYO CRYOBANKS AS AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT ENDANGERED LIVESTOCK BREEDS OF UKRAINE

Abstract

The development of industrial animal husbandry on a global scale shows a tendency towards an unceasing increase in the productive and technological qualities of animals, in particular dairy cattle, but with a simultaneous direction towards the absorption of non-competitive breeding material. In practice, this is done through an intensive selection process, hybridization and the disappearance of local and aboriginal breeds of cattle (cattle). In Ukraine, experts currently count 5 endangered breeds of cattle of domestic selection: brown Carpathian, Lebedin, red steppe, white-headed Ukrainian and gray Ukrainian/