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Longevity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2018

David N. Logue ,
Alistair W. Stott ,
John Santarossa ,
George J. Gunn  and
Jill E. Offer
David N. Logue
Affiliation:
SAC Veterinary Services (Ayr), SAC, West Mains Road Edinburgh, UK
Alistair W. Stott
Affiliation:
Land Economy Group (Aberdeen), SAC, West Mains Road Edinburgh, UK
John Santarossa
Affiliation:
Land Economy Group (Ayr), SAC, West Mains Road Edinburgh, UK
George J. Gunn
Affiliation:
SAC Veterinary Services (Inverness), SAC, West Mains Road Edinburgh, UK
Jill E. Offer
Affiliation:
SAC Veterinary Services (Ayr), SAC, West Mains Road Edinburgh, UK
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Investigations of culling and particularly involuntary culling (“functional” longevity) have often used different criteria on herds of varying size in different regions and with divergent average milk outputs (Young, Waddington, Sales, Bradley and Spooner, 1983; Esslemont and Kossaibati, 1997; Forbes, Gayton and McGeogh, 1999; Whitaker Kelly and Smith, 2000; Figure 1). Thus the evidence of increasing or decreasing culling for any particular entity is uncertain.

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BSAP Occasional Publication , Volume 29: Dairying: Using Science to Meet Consumers’ Needs , 2004 , pp. 85 - 105
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