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Danish Holsteins Favor Bull Offspring: Biased Milk Production as a Function of Fetal Sex, and Calving Difficulty

In a previous study from 2014 it was found that US Holstein cows that gave birth to heifer calves produced more milk than cows having bull calves. We wanted to assess whether this is also true for Danish cattle. Data from 578 Danish Holstein herds were analysed with a mixed effect model and contrary...

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Autores principales: Græsbøll, Kaare, Kirkeby, Carsten, Nielsen, Søren Saxmose, Christiansen, Lasse Engbo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4395430/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25874441
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0124051