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Livestock Improvement is working on a genetic means of reducing the incidence of cow lameness.
It involves identifying artificial breeding bulls whose daughters will be more resistant to lameness, says LIC breeding manager Allan McPherson.
Based on a “mobility breeding value” (MBV), it is a “small but significant step in selective breeding for dairy cows”, he says.
"The heritability of lameness is relatively low – less than 5%. In other words, over 95% of the observed differences...
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