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Docility and heifer pregnancy estimates in Angus heifers
Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research Reports, 2014 Introduction Reproductive success is economically relevant in beef cattle operations because the number of calves born influences the value of calves sold at weaning. Improvements in reproductive performance can be up to four times more important than improvements in end-product traits in an operation selling calves at weaning.
Kari L. White +3 more
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iMetaOmicsLong‐term artificial selection and environmental shifts have driven adaptive changes in both the host genome and the intestinal microbiota. The complex symbiotic relationship between these two has become essential for maintaining intestinal homeostasis ...
Tianle He +10 more
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Maternal depression is associated with less dietary diversity among rural Nepali children
Maternal and Child Nutrition, 2021 Maternal depression has been associated with adverse child growth and development; less is known about its relation to children's diet. In a cross‐sectional study embedded at endline of a longitudinal community development intervention, mothers of 629 ...
Laurie C. Miller +6 more
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Veterinary Record, EarlyView.Abstract Background Changing legislation regarding antimicrobial consumption (AMC) forces Flemish bovine veterinary practitioners (BVP) to rethink their business models and shift their on‐farm practices from curative to preventive. However, little is known about their current practices and opinions regarding antibiotic stewardship, mastitis treatment ...
Lien Creytens +2 more
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Expanding women's opportunities: the potential of heifer projects in sub-Saharan Africa
, 2004 Throughout the world, deeply entrenched barriers exclude women from meaningful participation in socio-economic and political activities. This is not merely an issue of fairness and equality.
Ssewamala, Fred
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ECONOMICS OF HEIFER RAISING OPTIONS [PDF]
, 2017 As dairy farms grow and specialize in milking cows, one enterprise that may be removed from the dairy farm to allow for milk cow herd expansion is heifer raising. Custom heifer raising is increasingly common across the country and purchasing heifers may
Harsh, Stephen B., Wolf, Christopher A.
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Animal NutritionThis study was to investigate growth performance, rumination development, rumen fermentation and feed digestion in young calves provided high volumes (about 20% of calf birth weight) of milk with or without forage inclusion and how these parameters ...
Jianxin Xiao +9 more
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Veterinary Record, EarlyView.Abstract Background Ensuring livestock welfare throughout the production chain, including transport, is an ethical and regulatory imperative. However, protocols to assess transport‐related welfare during routine abattoir inspections are not standardised, including antemortem (AM) inspection by an official veterinarian at UK abattoirs.
Sayaka Mochizuki +2 more
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Heifer International: growing a learning organisation
, 2002 Heifer International (HI) has been applying participatory approaches to rural development for nearly 60 years. Organisationally, HI focuses on building the capacity of its country programmes and NGO partners to work independently toward a unifying ...
Protti, Mark +4 more
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iMetaMicrobiome and resistome transmission from mother to child, as well as from animal to environment, has been widely discussed in recent years. Dairy cows mainly provide milk and meat.
Shuai Liu +19 more
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