Sentence examples for udder size from inspiring English sources

It also started a fee-based "barncam buddies" site that offers, among other extras, Webcasts of veterinarians' visits and udder close-ups (changes in udder size signal an impending birth).

In general, results suggest that dietary inclusion of 60 g of SBO/kg DM during the last third of pregnancy in hair ewes could be an optimal dose to simultaneously increase colostrum production, udder size pre-lambing, newborn thermoregulation and pre-weaning growth of their lambs.

It has been reported that udder morphometric traits including increased udder size and teat size tend to negatively influence the efficiency of the milking machine therefore increasing the amount of time it takes to milk [ 18, 30].

The high variability obtained in tissue concentrations is consistent with those results indicated in other similar studies [ 23- 27], and it can be due to interindividual variations related to gland size or milk secretion volume (related to the degree of drug dilution), even though animals were selected according to similar conformation and udder size, level of milk production or days in milk.

Incorporating all traits should decrease milk time while controlling for milk yield as well as control for clinical mastitis and its indicator traits of SCC and SCS and also other traits associated with udder size through indirect correlated response to selection in Italian Brown Swiss.

Other factors such as udder conformation, teat size, maternal instinct and dystocia have been associated with a failure to transfer passive immunity in calves [ 7, 5].

Nevertheless, this may have introduced selection bias, e.g. with regard to herd size, udder health, production level, or farmers who were dissatisfied with the quality of disease data or who had a particular interest in disease recording or research studies.

Traits within a phenotype group (e.g., body size or udder conformation) had a greater tendency to have genes or gene regions with significant SNPs in common than did traits in different phenotype groups.

As described in detail by Kietzmann et al. [ 8], medium sized udders with a symmetric shape and a teat length of 6-8 cm from healthy German Black Pied cows that were lactating prior to slaughter were used.

This problem increases with increasing parity of the sows, probably because the size of the udder and the body itself become bigger with age (Vasdal et al. unpublished).

In Table 2, the 18 body conformation traits were divided into six trait groups: body size, body shape, udder, teats, feet and legs, and final score.