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Prenatal maternal effects on body condition score, female fertility, and milk yield of dairy cows.
Journal of dairy science - 1 Jul 2007
Banos G, Brotherstone S, Coffey M P
Abstract excerpt
In this study, maternal effects were described as age of dam at first and second calving, first-lactation body condition score (BCS) of the dam during gestation, and milk yield of the dam. The impact of these effects on first-lactation daughter BCS, fertility, and test-day milk yield was assessed. The effect of milk yield of dam on daughter 305-d yield in the latter's first 3 lactations was also investigated. The...
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