АНАЛИЗ НА ДИНАМИКАТА НА ТЕЛЕСНОТО СЪСТОЯНИЕ ВЪВ ВРЪЗКА С РЕПРОДУКТИВНИЯ СТАТУС ПРИ БИВОЛИЦИ
2015
Penchev Pencho | Ilieva Yordanka | Dimov Kalin | Yosifov Marin
With the aim to assess the changes in body condition score (BCS) in relation to reproductive status, 46 Bulgarian Murrah buffaloes (13 heifers and 33 cows) were subjected to 14 monthly check sessions carried out by two evaluators. Scores for five skeletal check points (pins, sacrum, hooks, ribs, withers) were recorded using the 5-point scale developed by Todorov and Mitev (1993). The sets of individually averaged BCS data were processed with the software products LSMLMW and MIXMDL (Harvey, 1990), the overall operational model including the effects ear tag number, age, reproductive status, session (date), and evaluator. The ANOVA showed that reproductive status is a highly significant source of variance of BCS (F= 12.85, P
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