The bovine creole barroso-Salmeco in Guatemala

Abstract

The study was conducted on the farm of Don Víctor Manuel Melgar located in the southeast of Guatemala. Objectives To evaluate the phaneroptic, morphological and morphometric characteristics, to develop the Barroso-Salmeco standard to determine a racial pattern. The sample consisted of 49 females and 5 bulls older than three years of age with morpho-structural measurements, determination of indices, morphological and phaneroptic characteristics (44). To morphostructural variables and indices with univariate analysis to determine arithmetic mean, DE, CV, EE, Pearson and the morphological and phaneroptic contingency tables. The results: phaneroptic (female / male): hairless head in the forehead, muddy eyelid color, continuous towel, no umbilical fold, no hump, black skin, pink nose, dark hoof, depigmented udder / scrotum, short hair, fine , a single uniform color, present footwear. Morphological females: small horizontal ear, straight cephalic profile, large head, round medium eyes, medium length neck, straight lumbar back line, picked belly, broad trunk, broad chest, slightly pronounced cross, inclined rump, in line tail birth , straight buttock, tail of medium fineness, small tassel above the hock, correct aplombs, medium thick extremities, insertion of the normal and firm udder, symmetrical quarters, udder and middle nipples uniform, cylindrical with round tip. The male, long neck with trapezius development, large symmetrical testicles, flexible scrotum, foreskin not very pendulous. The indices indicate: brevilíneo, longilíneo, the diameters of length predominate, they are inscribed in a rectangle of greater base; of dairy and meat production, dolichocephalic, skeletal fineness, thoracic amplitude; Dairy fitness females, harmonized body volume with bone development. The Barrosos-Salmecos are homogenous of body harmonization up to 19%.