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Klocke, Peter; Dollinger, Julia; Ivemeyer, Silvia; Heil, Fritz. |
Body Condition Scoring (BCS) is a simple method to control the energy supply of single dairy cows as well as for the entire herd. This is very important especially for organic herds due to limited resources of energy intake. Within an udder health pro-gramme regular BCS using a 5 point scale with 0.25 pt. steps is a good tool to detect feeding problems. The impact of fattened cows during dry time and meagre cows during lactation peak on metabolic health and fertility is known, but not the correlation between BCS and udder health. Within the extension programme “pro-Q” 530 dairy cows were scored at minimum twice during one lactation. The first time was 10 days before to 5 days after calving (BCS-1), the second time was in lactation up to day 100 (once or... |
Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: Dairy cattle; Health and welfare. |
Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/9432/1/9432_Klocke_Vortrag.pdf |
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