Fat, fertility and the genetics of cow performance with Professor Wayne Pitchford
About this episode
Professor Wayne Pitchford discusses cow condition and its relationship with fertility and genetics.
This week on the podcast, Professor Wayne Pitchford joins Mark Ferguson to discuss all things cow condition. Wayne has spent more than three decades at the University of Adelaide working across animal breeding, genetics and livestock production, and is currently Director of the Davies Livestock Research Centre. Wayne and Mark discuss his recent research on the relationship between early body measures and adult traits like fertility and condition score, including why young animal data ex...
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