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Title: Reduction of the bull: cow ratio in the Brazilian Pantanal
Keywords: beef cattle
livestock management
production costs
animal production
Issue Date: 30-May-2013
Publisher: Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa)
Description: This work was conducted to study alternatives for reduction of the bull:cow ratio in the Brazilian lowland and, therefore, lower the production costs for the local beef cattle industry. The ratios 1:10, 1:25, and 1:40 were used in native pastures with a mean stocking rate of 0.27 mature animal unit per hectare over two consecutive breeding seasons. Statistical analysis did not show any effect (P>0.05) of year (P = 0.2097), animal category (P = 0.0773), bull:cow ratio (0.8134) on reproductive performance. However, the pregnancy rate in a multiple bull system was higher (P = 0.0228) than in the individual bull system. An evaluation of the economic impact of this management system in the extensive Lowland herds showed that at the ratio of 1:10 the bulls were sub utilized.
URI: http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/jspui/handle/123456789/3952
Other Identifiers: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-204X2002001200019
http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=openurl&genre=article&issn=0100204X&date=2002&volume=37&issue=12&spage=1811
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