Use of early lactation milk recording data to predict the calving to conception interval in dairy herds
Economic success in dairy herds is heavily reliant on obtaining pregnancies at an early stage of lactation. Our objective in this study was to attempt to predict the likelihood of conception occurring by d 100 and 150 of lactation (days in milk, DIM) by Markov chain Monte Carlo analysis using test d...
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American Dairy Science Association
2016
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/37846/ |