Method of producing a sustainable herd
OwnerWilliam Julieninventor
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Abstract
The use of SAA/MAA levels in mammalian fluids to develop management strategies that maximize sustainability, mammalian health, productivity, and economic return including for example the formulation of cost effective nutritional management strategies, determining whether an individual mammal should be retained in a herd or culled, determining the value of the individual mammal as a contributor of genetic material for herd replacement, determining a course of immediate and/or prophylactic health care intervention, etc.
Claims4
A method of selecting cattle for inclusion in a herd that produces less methane and/or consumes less dry matter and/or consumes less water than a general population of cattle, comprising:
- obtaining or having obtained a sample of colostrum from an individual female cow;
- performing or having performed a measurement of an amount of serum associated amyloid A (SAA) in the sample;
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- including the individual female in the herd if the concentration of SAA in the sample is greater than 300 ugr/ml, or
- excluding the individual female from the herd if the concentration of SAA the sample is less than 300 ugr/ml.
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