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Development of resilience indicator traits based on daily step count data for dairy cattle breeding.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 14 Mar 2022
Poppe Marieke, Mulder Han A, van Pelt Mathijs L, Mullaart Erik, Hogeveen Henk, Veerkamp Roel F
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BACKGROUND: Resilient animals are minimally affected by disturbances, such as diseases and heat stress, and quickly recover. Daily activity data can potentially indicate resilience, because resilient animals likely keep variations due to disturbances that threat animal homeostasis at a low magnitude. We used daily step count of cows to define resilience indicators based on theory, exploratory analysis and...
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