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Genetic analysis of health traits and their associations with longevity, fertility, production, and conformation traits in Holstein cattle.
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience - 1 Jun 2024
Hu H H, Mu T, Zhang Z B, Zhang J X, Feng X, Han L Y, Hao F, Ma Y F, Jiang Y, Ma Y
Abstract excerpt
Health traits have high economic values in dairy cattle breeding, which can cause considerable financial loss through involuntary culling. In this study, fourteen health traits were analysed, including five composite health traits: reproductive disorders, udder health (UH), digestive disorders, metabolic disorders, locomotory diseases (LD), and nine independent health traits: gestation disorders and peripartum...
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