00:00It's the slick group. So we have the slick calves and then we have the animals that are in the digital tool project.
00:10So you see these guys with sensors on their necks. This one.
00:15So those are the animals that are in the digital tool project.
00:19So we are able to record their spatial ecology or their movement across the ranch.
00:25We are also able to see how they are behaving, how they are breathing, how they are ruminating.
00:30If they cough, we will be able to have that data.
00:34So they have a bolus inside the rumen also to complement the sensor.
00:40And then when they go back to the enclosure, we will be recording their movement around the bomber, feeding,
00:47and any other physiological differences. They have a face to compare with.
00:53The females that have given birth to calves are on milk trials.
00:57They are on tick trials. They are on weight gain trials and all that.
01:01So it's an animal that is just being introduced into studies now.
01:07And you got those generics from New Zealand, did you say?
01:10Yes, the livestock improvement company in New Zealand.
01:13Which two breeds are these again?
01:16So if you see the black and white, that is a Prussian Boran cross.
01:22Okay. Yes.
01:23So are Prussian known for the traits that you are studying? Or?
01:29No, I think they are only using, you know, they are only using this Prussian Boran cross to give birth to slick animals, to a slick.
01:40They are just being served with the cement from a slick sire, so that we have babies.
01:46A kind of a prolactin gene is responsible for introducing these characteristics to the animals, to the pure breeds in Africa or something.
01:55So the animals will have tolerance to extreme temperature.
01:58They will be able to produce milk under extremes.
02:01They will have a thinner haircut compared to what oppression we have.
02:05The tip of their hair is a kind of shiny.
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