Association between age at first calving and lactation performance, lactation curve, calving interval, calf birth weight, and dystocia in Holstein dairy cows

Hadi Atashi; Anise Asaadi; Miel Hostens

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0244825

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Association between age at first calving and lactation performance, lactation curve, calving interval, calf birth weight, and dystocia in Holstein dairy cows

Hadi Atashi ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: Atashi@shirazu.ac.ir

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6853-6608

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Anise Asaadi,

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Science, School of Veterinary Medicine, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
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Miel Hostens

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Farm Animal Health, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Association between age at first calving and lactation performance, lactation curve, calving interval, calf birth weight, and dystocia in Holstein dairy cows

Hadi Atashi,
Anise Asaadi,
Miel Hostens

Published: January 4, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244825

About the Authors

Hadi Atashi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: Atashi@shirazu.ac.ir

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6853-6608

Anise Asaadi

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Science, School of Veterinary Medicine, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

Miel Hostens

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Farm Animal Health, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

No authors have competing interests.

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