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Investigating the relationship between fluctuations in daily milk yield as resilience indicators and health traits in Holstein cattle.
Journal of dairy science - 1 Mar 2024
Wang Ao, Su Guosheng, Brito Luiz F, Zhang Hailiang, Shi Rui, Liu Dengke, Guo Gang, Wang Yachun
Abstract excerpt
Disease-related milk losses directly affect dairy herds' profitability and the production efficiency of the dairy industry. Therefore, this study aimed to quantify phenotypic variability in milk fluctuation periods related to diseases and to explore milk fluctuation traits as indicators of disease resilience. By combining high-frequency daily milk yield data with disease records of cows that were treated and...
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