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Effects of productive lifespan on phenotypic lifetime daily milk yield in dairy cows: conclusions from 20-year herdbook data analysis.
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience - 1 Jun 2026
Bieber A, Hediger F, Leiber F, Pfeifer C, Walkenhorst M
Abstract excerpt
Although the productive lifespan is a key factor for the sustainability of dairy farming, it has decreased in European countries over many years. We aimed to study the development of production level (2.22 million cows) and productive lifespan (2.31 million cows) from 1999 to 2019 by analysing Swiss herdbook data of Holstein cows (from two different herdbooks: HO_HOS from Holstein Switzerland, HO_SHB from...
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