Breeding polled cattle in Australia

Title
Breeding polled cattle in Australia
Publication Date
2016
Author(s)
Connors, Natalie
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4866-4757
Email: nconnor2@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:nconnor2
Tier, Bruce
Editor
Editor(s): Susanne Hermesch & Sonja Dominik
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
University of New England
Place of publication
Armidale, Australia
Edition
1
UNE publication id
une:20625
Abstract
Economic losses in beef cattle due to bruised meat can be largely attributed to the presence of horns. While dehorning practices can provide some economic improvement, it is more labour intensive and is likely to be subject to renewed animal welfare legislation in the future. Breeding naturally polled animals is the long term alternative to reducing economic loss while maintaining best practice animal welfare. The haplotype Poll test is aimed to estimate the Poll genetics of an animal, given the alleles observed at 10 microsatellites in the vicinity of the Poll locus on chromosome 1. The following provides a summary of the genetics of polled cattle and the test used to estimate Poll probability of beef cattle.
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Citation
Breeding Focus 2016 - Improving Welfare, p. 59-66
ISBN
9781921597695
Start page
59
End page
66

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