Body Condition Scoring System (BCS) for Beef CattleJason Holmes
摘要: Data from the first four cycles of the Germplasm Evaluation Program at the US Meat Animal Research Center (USMARC) were used to investigate genetic relationships between mature weight (MW, n= 37,710), mature weight adjusted for body condition score (AMW, n...
The article presents tips on how to evaluate the health of animals using body monitoring system. It mentions the efficacy of the body condition scoring in identifying undernourished, healthy and overweight beef cattle in farms. Moreover, it offers information on the importance of the scheme to dai...
Body Condition ScoreReproducibilityRepeatabilityNinety-eight Hereford 脳 Angus beef cows were used to determine reproducibility (the correlation between an animal's score by one technician and its score by a different technician), repeatability (the correlation between an animal's score on one occasion ...
A negative relation between body condition scoring and first-calf cow milk performance results as well as cow type and build scoring was found. High and positive correlations between build general scoring and partial scoring pertaining to conformation were found. 展开 ...
Body condition scoring in cats and dogs Moose (Alces alces) populations exceed 3individuals/km2 in some wildlife reserves and parks of northeastern Canada. Heavy browsing pressure at such densiti... M Diez 被引量: 5发表: 2006年 Reduced gastrointestinal worm burden following long term parasite con...
Montbéliarde (MO)-sired crossbred cows (n = 57) were compared with pure Holstein (HO) cows (n = 40) for dry matter intake (DMI), production, hip height, body condition score (BCS), and body weight (BW) during the first 150 d of first lactation. Also, production for 305 d was ...
prior to calving. Cow body condition scoring is easy to do and requires little time. If you find many cows are thin, begin making plans for supplemental nutrition. If only a few cows are thin, usually first or second parity cows or older cows, consider separating the herd into two groups...
Commonly, body condition, a ratio of adipose tissue to other components of the body, is either semiquantitatively assessed by visual scoring (BCS) or quantitatively assessed by ultrasonographic measurement of backfat thickness (Schröder and Staufenbiel, 2006; Roche et al., 2009, 2013). The dis...
1.1. Methodologies exploited for body condition scoring in farm animals Table 1 summarizes some of the existing literature with regard to the BCS, primarily focusing on dairy cattle. These studies reflect the diversity of methodologies (e.g., ML, DL Statistical modeling etc.) and technological app...