Why shorten calving intervals on smallholder dairy farms in East Africa?
In European dairy herds lactation curves are conventionally described by a gamma function such as that of Wood (1969). High yields in early lactation mean that more frequent calving leads to increased annual milk production (AMP) per cow. Thus, the optimum calving interval in the UK is 365 days (Ess...
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| Format: | Conference Paper |
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British Society of Animal Science
1998
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/51319 |
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