Advances in dairy cattle breeding to improve resistance to claw disorders/lameness Emmanouil Takas

Advances in dairy cattle breeding to improve resistance to claw disorders/lameness Emmanouil TakasFoot and claw disorders are, along with reproductive and udder health problems, major reasons for involuntary culling in dairy cattle. Culling due to lameness accounts for 8 15% of all culls. This chapter describes the key factors needed to achieve genetic improvement of claw health and discusses the challenges. It covers the various steps in breeding from the definition of the breeding goal, performance recording (phenotyping) with standardization

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