Color and exterior characteristics of first-calf heifers of dairy breeds
Yuriy Polupan,
Serhii Pryima
Abstract:The exterior of 945 first-calf heifers of Holstein and Ukrainian Black-and-White and Red dairy breeds in the breeding herd LLC "Agricultural enterprise "Svitanok" of the Donetsk region was studied by the type and the main measurements of the body structure. During the fourteen-year period of improvement of the breeding herd, an improvement in the exterior of the cows was noted with an increase in the conditional proportion of Holstein blood, which was accompanied by an increase in the milk productivity of the … Show more
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