factors affecting body condition score and its relationship with productiveand reproductive performances of holstein cows

نویسندگان

n. ghavi hossein-zadeh

m. akbarian

چکیده

the objective of the present study was to determine factors affecting body condition score (bcs) and its association with productive and reproductive performances in holstein cows. mixed model analysis was performed on monthly records of bcs from april 2006 to july 2012 comprising 34666 records from 3134 dairy cows in a large commercial dairy herd under arid climatic conditions of isfahan in iran. body condition scores were recorded on a scale of 1 to 5. fixed factors included in the final mixed model of analysis were evaluation year, parity and evaluation season and also year by parity, season by parity and year by season interaction effects. average bcs in the dairy herd was 3.06 ± 0.77. the results showed that there was an increasing trend for bcs over the years from 2006 to 2012 (p

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عنوان ژورنال:
iranian journal of applied animal science

ناشر: islamic azad university - rasht branch

ISSN 2251-628X

دوره 5

شماره 1 2015

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