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Modeling Skin Mark Temporal Variations to Estimate the Sex of Delphinids with Low Sexual Dimorphism: Implications for Management and Conservation

open access: yesIntegrative Zoology, EarlyView.
This work aimed to apply the principles of skin mark analysis to a cetacean species to build a sex‐discrimination model exclusively based on photographic material. Relevant differences between sexes emerged in markings, with males presenting more social, aggression‐related, and fishing‐related marks overall, and a stronger tendency of mark accumulation
Alice Turchi   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Calving Interval pada Sapi Bali di Kabupaten Pringsewu [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Research on calving interval in Bali Cattles in Pringsewu Regency was held on December 2014 until January 2015 with 5 inseminators, 110 Bali Cattles that had been inseminated belong to 100 farmers.
Hartono, M. (Madi)   +2 more
core  

Nutritional aspects related to the interval between calves

open access: yesScientific Electronic Archives, 2017
It is known that the demand for products of bovine origin increases every day in the world, and Brazil, which has the largest commercial herd of cattle on the planet, does not stay behind when it comes to raising beef cattle and milk. Despite our efforts to offer the best product, we are faced with difficult challenges in the country when it comes to ...
G. H C. Guse   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Food Subsidies Reduce Livestock Depredations by a Recovering Carnivore

open access: yesAnimal Conservation, EarlyView.
Diversionary feeding—providing food caches to divert predators away from preying on livestock—is a strategy to reduce depredations by Mexican gray wolves but has not been evaluated for its effectiveness. We used data from the Mexican wolf recovery program from 2014‐2021 to evaluate whether diversionary feeding reduced livestock depredations by wolf ...
Matthew Hyde   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Epidemiology and economic impact of Johne's disease in Irish dairy herds [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
End of project reportThis project addressed two aspects of an emerging infectious disease of Irish cattle; the epidemiology and the economic impacts of Johne’s disease (paratuberculosis).
Mee, John F, Richardson, Esther K. B.
core  

Association between body condition score and live weight in pasture-based Holstein-Friesian dairy cows [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
peer-reviewedThe objective was to quantify the strength of the relationship between body condition score (BCS) and live weight (LW) in pasture-based Holstein-Friesian dairy cattle, and to determine the kg LW per unit BCS.
Berry, Donagh   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Monitoring African Megafauna in an Anthropogenic Landscape: A 15‐Year Case Study of the Vulnerable West African Giraffe

open access: yesAnimal Conservation, EarlyView.
We used pattern recognition software to correct misidentifications in a 15‐year photographic database of the last, vulnerable West African giraffe population in Niger. After revealing substantial methodological errors that had inflated population estimates by nearly 19%, we corrected individual encounter histories and applied capture‐mark‐recapture ...
Mara Vukelić   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Characterization of dystocia in a herd of Holstein dairy cows in Brazil

open access: yesCiência Animal Brasileira, 2022
The objective of this study was to characterize calvings with low and high difficulty based on the productive and reproductive performance of dairy cows.
Jean Carlos Lourenço   +7 more
doaj  

The effect of calving season on reproductive performance of Jersey cows

open access: yesMljekarstvo, 2017
Dairy records, containing 1269 lactation record of 462 Jersey dairy cows collected over 16 years, from an agricultural state farm were used. Data for reproductive performance of cows were also collected.
Ercan Soydan, Mehmet Kuran
doaj   +1 more source

The effect of strategic supplementation with trans-10,cis-12 conjugated linoleic acid on the milk production, estrous cycle characteristics, and reproductive performance of lactating dairy cattle [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Peer-reviewedThis is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of Dairy Science. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control ...
Butler, Stephen   +5 more
core   +1 more source

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