Economic value of female fertility and its relationship with profit in Spanish dairy cattle.

doi:10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(04)73438-4

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Economic value of female fertility and its relationship with profit in Spanish dairy cattle.

Journal of dairy science - 1 Sept 2004

González-Recio O, Pérez-Cabal M A, Alenda R

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A data file of 225,085 inseminations and 120,713 lactations from 63,160 Holstein cows was analyzed to obtain female fertility economic value according to number of inseminations per service period (INS). Fertility cost (FCOST) was included in a bioeconomic model, taking into account number of doses of semen, hormonal treatments, fertility culling cost, and delayed milk and calf sales. A profit equation was...

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Animals
Cattle
Costs and Cost Analysis
Dairying
Female
Fertility
Insemination, Artificial
Lactation
Phenotype
Pregnancy
Spain

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PMID: 15375068
DOI: 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(04)73438-4

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