The purpose of the research was to study the frequency of erythrocyte antigens of 9 genetic systems, the number of genotypes and the frequency of alleles in the F-V system in sires of four breeds at the OAO “Barnaulskoe” Bull stud, as well as to establish indices of genetic similarity between them. The characteristics of 138 sires of Black-and-White breed, 103 of Red-and-White, 106 of Simmental and 270 sires of red breeds have been given. 53 antiserums were used in the tests. The high occurrence of blood factors A₂ (system A), B₂, G₂, O₁, Y₂, G’, O’ and Q’ (system B), C₂, E, W, X₂ (system C), H’ (system S) and Z (system Z) in sures of all four breeds ranged from 0,204 (O’ in sires of Red-and-White breed) to 0,825 (X₂ in the same breed). The frequency of the F antigen in all breeds was maximal and varied from 0,874 in sires of Red-and-White breed to 0,981 in sires of red breeds. On the contrary, the occurrence of blood factors B₁, I₁, I₂, P₁, P₂, Q, T₁, T₂, I’, J₂’, K’, P₁’, Y’, B” and R₁ was significantly lower and amounted to 0–0,130 in sires of Black-and–White breed, 0–0,087 in sires of Red-and-White breed, 0–0,094 in Simmental sires and 0,004–0,137 in sires of Red breeds. Sires of red breeds had all 53 antigens, Black-and-White sires did not have 8, Red-and-White sires did not have 11, and Simmental sires did not have 9 blood factors. There were no significant differences in the value of the genetic similarity index between the animals of the four breeds. However, there was a tendency to increase the similarity between the sires of Black-and-White and Simmental breeds on the one hand and the sires Red-and-White breed on the other (r=0,8837 and 0,8765). The least close breeds are Red-and-White and Simmental on the one hand and Red breeds on the other (r=0,8613 and 0,8585). This is also indicated by the occurrence of genotypes and alleles in the F-V genetic system. Thus, significant differences in the number of all genotypes and frequencies of alleles were revealed between sires of Simmental and Red breeds.

For 32 districts of Omsk oblast, the levels of selenium accumulation were determined across trophic levels: soil, plants, animals, and human. An inverse correlation was found between serum selenium concentration and parameters of total mortality, as well as the incidence of lung, ovarian, and rectal cancer. Significant differences were shown in the coefficient of plant selenium accumulation depending on the soil type. We discuss the most promising approaches to optimizing the selenium status of the population.

The characteristic of milk productivity of cows of Holstein and Simmental breeds in LLC “Sibirskaya Niva” in the Maslyaninsky district in the Novosibirsk region has been given. It has been revealed that under the natural and climatic environments of the Western Siberia, when creating favorable conditions for feeding and housing for cows of Holstein and Simmental breeds have sufficiently high milk productivity. It has been found that Holstein first-calf heifers surpassed their Simmental herdmates by 959 kg in milk yield for the first 305 days of lactation under the same conditions of housing and feeding, by 3,1 kg in daily milk yield, by 38,2 kg in milk fat yield, and by 28,3 kg in milk protein yield (P < 0,001). There were no statistically significant differences between animals of Holstein and Simmental breeds in terms of fat and protein content in milk, which amounted to 3,94 and 2,96 % in Holstein breed and 3,97 and 2,98 % in Simmental breed, respectively. Both breeds have shown high milk productivity during the first 3 lactations. Thus, the milk yield of Holstein cows for the first 3 lactation was 6475–9290 kg, Simmental cows it was 5516–7680 kg, fat content was 3,93–3,99 and 3,96–3,97 %, respectively. The protein content in the milk of cows of both breeds did not exceed 3,0 %. High variability has been found in milk yield, yield of milk fat and protein, the coefficient of milk content and duration of lactation, the lowest in the content of protein and fat in milk and live weight. The correlation coefficients between the fat and protein content in milk were generally positive, but did not exceed 0,28. Therefore, breeding in the herd of cows in LLC “Sibirskaya Niva” have to be conducted not only by fat content, but also by protein content in milk.

The results of assessing the copper content in the bristles of pigs of Landrace, Kemerovo and Early maturing meat breeds are presented. The study was carried out on clinically healthy six-month-old animals in the farms of Novosibirsk and Kemerovo regions and Altai Territory. The conditions for keeping animals were standard with typical feeding. Elemental analysis of pig bristle samples was carried out by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry. The data was processed using Microsoft Office Excel and Statistica 8 (StatSoft Inc., USA), including nonparametric methods. A decreasing ranged series was established according to the level of copper in the hair of pigs for Landrace → Kemerovo → Early maturing meat breeds. As a ratio, it is represented as 5.1 : 4.5 : 1. Copper in the bristles of Landrace, Kemerovo and Early maturing meat breeds amounted to 44.0, 39.0 and 8.7 mg/kg, respectively. The accumulation of copper recorded in the bristles of Landrace and Kemerovo pig breeds was 5.6 and 4.5 times higher than that of Early maturing meat breed (p ˂ 0.001). The Early maturing meat and Kemerovo breeds were characterized with the homogeneity of indicators; they had the smallest interquartile range and the ratio of the extreme variants. The study using Kruskal-Wallis criterion established that the breed affects the accumulation of copper in the bristles of pigs. Differences were registered in pairs: Early maturing meat – Kemerovo and Early maturing meat – Landrace breeds (p ˂ 0.001). The most similar results of studying animals based on cluster analysis were found between Kemerovo and Landrace breeds. Early maturing meat breed is relatively resistant to copper accumulation in the bristles. The data obtained can be tentatively taken as a physiological norm for the accumulation of copper in the bristles of pigs of various breeds zoned in Western Siberia.

The presented results expand the understanding of the normal chemical composition of the body. The study was carried out on the basis of a pig-breeding farm in the Altai Territory in 2016-2020 on clinically healthy 6-month-old pigs of the Landrace breed. Chemical analysis of pig bristles was performed by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry. The data were processed using Statistica 8 software (StatSoft Inc., USA). A study of the correlations between phosphorus in bristles and other macro-, microelements, as well as chemical elements associated with phosphorus, has been carried out. Only positive connections of different strengths have been established between phosphorus and elements involved in the formation of bone tissue (calcium, magnesium, manganese), copper, iron and strontium. There are two groups of direct interactions of different strengths between the chemical elements associated with phosphorus. Explained supposedly the essence of the connections, which is consistent in the bristle, as the final site of exchange, with organs and tissues of mammals.