Estimating internal pelvic sizes using external body measurements in the double-muscled Belgian Blue beef breed
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Pelvic dimensions in phenotypically double-muscled Belgian Blue cows.
Some anatomical characteristics of 507 Belgian Blue (BB) cattle, withers height (WH), heart girth (HG), the distance between the two tubera coxae (TcTc) and the distance between the two tubera ischiadica (TiTi), were compared with the internal pelvic measurements of width, height and area. Mean values were 58.9 ± 6.2 cm for TcTc, 14.6 ± 2.3 cm for TiTi, 15.2 ± 2.1 cm for pelvic width (PW), 18.8...
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عنوان ژورنال: Animal Science
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1357-7298,1748-748X
DOI: 10.1017/s1357729800053480