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Correlations between cresty neck scores and post-mortem nape fat measurements in horses, obtained after photographic image analysis

BACKGROUND: Obesity and emaciation in horses have major detrimental effects on health and morbidity, reproductive failure, work performance or carcass quality. Scoring is a current management tool used to assess and monitor equine body condition due to its simplicity and low cost. However, accurate...

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Autores principales: Silva, Severiano R., Payan-Carreira, Rita, Guedes, Cristina M., Coelho, Simão, Santos, Ana Sofia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5073977/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27766984
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13028-016-0241-4