Article
Sustaining the Fertility of Artificially Inseminated Dairy Cattle: The Role of the Artificial Insemination Industry
2004-07-01
Abstract excerpt
Although changes in environment and management are primarily implicated for the decline in reproductive efficiency of Holstein cows during the past 25 yr, fertility of the male must not be overlooked. Recent measures of scrotal circumference, semen quantity/quality are comparable to values reported for Holstein sires in 1969. Technological advances in semen processing are reflected in fertilization rates using cry...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 0bb53c6e-adb7-502a-af27-b8ddf473df4e
- DOI
- 10.3168/jds.s0022-0302(04)70065-x
