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The impact of hair coat color on longevity of Holstein cows in the tropics

BACKGROUND: Over two decades of observations in the field in South East Asia and Hawai‘i suggest that majority of the commercial dairy herds are of black hair coat. Hence a simple study to determine the accuracy of the observation was conducted with two large dairy herds in Hawaii in the mid-1990s....

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Autores principales: Lee, C. N., Baek, K. S., Parkhurst, A.
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/PMC5153880/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27994878
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40781-016-0123-3