Morphological traits of aberdeen angus cows’ udder

Authors

  • A. M. Ugnivenko National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine image/svg+xml

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31548/bio2017.03.012

Abstract

The basic morphological traits variability of Aberdeen Angus cows’ udder was studied. It is determined, 60.6 % of cows equip bowl shaped udder, 33.0 – round shaped, 7.4 % – primitive udder. The results showed that bowl shaped and round shaped udder was the better for cows of Aberdeen Angus breed.

Keywords: cows, morphological traits of udder, Aberdeen Angus breed

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Published

2017-07-27

Issue

Section

Animal husbandry