• Stayability in Italian Simmental dual-purpose cows: phenotypic and genetic associations
  • Buonaiuto, Giovanni <1994>

Subject

  • AGR/18 Nutrizione e alimentazione animale

Description

  • In recent years, dairy farmers have observed a substantial decrease in cows’ survival, with a direct negative consequence on the profitability. Shorter lifespan raises questions about animal welfare and farming conditions at which cows are exposed to. However, the length of productive life depends also on voluntary culling due to low productivity and, in dual-purpose breed, to low price of carcasses (meat). The general aim of the thesis was to investigate the genetic and phenotypic relationship of functional longevity with morphological features like muscularity and body condition score (BCS) and productive traits within Italian Simmental dual-purpose dairy cattle raised in Emilia-Romagna herds.

Date

  • 2023-06-19
  • info:eu-repo/date/embargoEnd/2026-03-30

Type

  • Doctoral Thesis
  • PeerReviewed

Format

  • application/pdf

Identifier

http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/10804/3/PhD%20Thesis%20-%20Buonaiuto%20Giovanni%20.pdf

urn:nbn:it:unibo-29287

Buonaiuto, Giovanni (2023) Stayability in Italian Simmental dual-purpose cows: phenotypic and genetic associations, [Dissertation thesis], Alma Mater Studiorum UniversitĂ  di Bologna. Dottorato di ricerca in Scienze veterinarie , 35 Ciclo.

Relations

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