The use of biotechnology to produce animals with desirable traits of high production .. Injecting cows with somatotropin (growth hormone) to increase milk production

Some US agricultural companies specializing in genetic engineering produce genetically engineered milk cows to produce high milk.
As well as on the way to produce custom-made Derby horses, and a meaty animal with a low fat content.
But there are two techniques that do not include genetic engineering, namely embryo transfer and colonization, through which DNA technology can be applied to the restaurant when it is mastered.
It is possible to use embryo transfer from animals either through surgery or by washing the uterus of the animal, has been actually produced animals in this way have a high efficiency expected of cows can not carry their eggs.
There are also embryo freezing techniques for commercial marketing. As for the production of hormones in new biotechnological methods for use in farm animals to increase the amount of milk and meat from cows, US scientists have been able to increase the proportion of milk production by about 10-25% of the unit cow during the period of milk production by injecting cows with the hormone Sumatotropin ), Which was introduced in the US and European markets since 1993.
One of the most important discoveries of genetic engineering applications to increase production in farm animals is that scientists 'discovery of growth hormone after isolation from rats and its addition to ordinary small mice' s chromosomes, and the increased size of these mice compared to their conventional production, In the history of the application of modern biotechnology in the field of development and increase of livestock in the history of all mankind.
Some American scientists have planted the rat's growth hormone gene in small mice by using genetic grafting technology. The same genes have been added by the researchers in a large number of born mice that were large in size compared to normal mice. From 20-80% of the mother size. The average increase in volume was 50%. It was also found that rat growth was much faster at twice the speed of growth in normal mice.
Dairy cows can benefit from this great discovery of growth hormone and its genetic applications to improve the productive performance of cows. Milk cows can be injected with a hormone similar to the growth hormone called prolactin, the hormone responsible for milk production, thus increasing milk production with improved dairy cows.
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