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Bull selection and use in northern Australia. 3. Serving capacity tests.
Animal reproduction science - 15 May 2002
Bertram J D, Fordyce G, McGowan M R, Jayawardhana G A, Fitzpatrick L A, Doogan V J, De Faveri J, Holroyd R G
Abstract excerpt
Serving capacity studies were conducted on Santa Gertrudis, 5/8 Brahman, Brahman and Belmont Red bulls at 10 sites. Modifications, such as providing prior sexual experience, using females in oestrus and comparing restrained with unrestrained females, were made to the standard Bos taurus serving capacity test in a series of experiments with Santa Gertrudis bulls. Providing sexual experience to virgin bulls prior...
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