An index framework founded on the future profit potential of female beef cattle to aid the identification of candidates for culling.

ABSTRACT: Meticulous culling decisions, coupled with careful breeding decisions, are fundamental to shifting a population distribution in the favorable direction and improving profit per cow. Nevertheless, there is a paucity of easy-to-use dynamic tools to aid in culling decisions in beef cattle. The motivation for the present study was to develop a monetary-based culling tool, here referred to as the Beef Female's Profit Potential (BFPP), to identify females for culling. The BFPP reflects the expected lifetime profitability of an individual female in a herd for the expected remainder of her lifetime; this profit included that of the beef female herself as well as her progeny. The BFPP index framework was composed of 4 subindexes reflecting the value of an animal: (1) as a nulliparae (this was voide

SUBMITTER: Dunne FL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7751179 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature