Evaluation of the Rice pelvimeter for measuring pelvic area in double muscled Belgian Blue cows
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a Department Agroand Biotechnology, KaHo Sint-Lieven, Hospitaalstraat 23, 9100 Sint Niklaas, Belgium b Department of Reproduction, Obstetrics and Herd Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Salisburylaan 133, 9820 Merelbeke, Belgium c Centre for Science, Technology and Ethics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 30, 3001 Leuven, Belgium d Livestock Health and Welfare Division, Veterinary Teaching Hospital, University of Liverpool, Chester High Road, Neston CH64 7TE, United Kingdom
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Pelvic dimensions in phenotypically double-muscled Belgian Blue cows.
Some anatomical characteristics of 507 Belgian Blue (BB) cattle, withers height (WH), heart girth (HG), the distance between the two tubera coxae (TcTc) and the distance between the two tubera ischiadica (TiTi), were compared with the internal pelvic measurements of width, height and area. Mean values were 58.9 ± 6.2 cm for TcTc, 14.6 ± 2.3 cm for TiTi, 15.2 ± 2.1 cm for pelvic width (PW), 18.8...
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