DAES Faculty
Chukwuemeka Okere, PhD 鈥� Research & Extension聽Professor of Animal Science; Interim Head, Department of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences; Coordinator, Animal & Veterinary Sciences Program
107聽Mary Starke Harper Hall
Phone: 334-727-8904
Email: cokere@tuskegee.edu
Area: Animal Sciences
Curriculum vitae
Research Summary
- To utilize assisted reproductive techniques to make rapid advances in genetic selection and improvement of desirable traits in meat goat production.
- To develop new genetic testing programs to accelerate improvement of economic traits, including growth performance, reproductive survival and meat quality
- Development of feeding and management programs to improve the competitiveness of meat goat industry in central Alabama.聽
- To develop means of improving growth rate, feed efficiency, and survivability, including research aimed at reducing the prevalence and impact of infectious diseases in meat goatherd.聽
- To conduct research aimed at improving reproductive efficiency and increasing perinatal survival in the meat breeding stock.
- Develop an integrated parasite management program.
- To access genotype and nutrition interaction on carcass yield and meat quality in goats.
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