Daily calving frequency and preterm calving is not associated with lunar cycle but preterm calving is associated with weather conditions in Japanese Black cows

• Yosuke Sasaki,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Animal and Grassland Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan, Center for Animal Disease Control, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan

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• Narumi Kitai,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Animal and Grassland Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan

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• Mizuho Uematsu,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Miyazaki Agricultural Mutual Aid Association, Miyazaki, Japan

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• Go Kitahara,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Animal Disease Control, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan, Department of Veterinary Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan

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• Takeshi Osawa

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: osawa@cc.miyazaki-u.ac.jp

  Affiliations Center for Animal Disease Control, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan, Department of Veterinary Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3213-3302

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