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The Practical Application of Three Scores in Dairy Cows

PAN Long, BU Deng-pan, SUN Peng, ZHOU Ling-yun   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
  • Received:2012-06-20 Online:2012-11-20 Published:2012-11-22

Abstract: Body condition scoring, fecal scoring and walking scoring, the indispensable indicators to predict the health of cows and monitor the level of feeding management of cows in the actual production, are becoming increasingly important, which are summarized in this paper based on previous studies.

Key words: dairy cows; body condition scoring; fecal scoring; walking scoring; feeding management

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