It is at 6% and above when geneticists raise concerns that inbreeding has a detrimental effect on numerous animal health and welfare traits such as fertility; reproduction, disease, longevity and ...

If the official ID of the cow is not transferred to the calf record, it will result in a break in the animal’s pedigree – causing missing inbreeding and incomplete genetic information. Step 5) If you ...

“We’re accumulating inbreeding through groups of closely related bulls now rather than one individual bull,” he says. Animal identification is the first step in ensuring good, reliable data. Several ...

With 1300 bed nights on the Island and a population of 2400 people the tourist market receives some of the boxed beef and ...

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Big Bertha, a cow owned by a man named Jerome O'Leary, who lived in Sneem, County Kerry, Ireland, indeed lived to the age of 48 and birthed 39 calves, setting two Guinness World Records.