METHOD FOR EVALUATION AND SELECTION OF COWS FOR MACHINE MILKING BY UDDER QUALITY Russian patent published in 2023 - IPC A01K67/02 

FIELD: animal husbandry.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to the field of animal husbandry and can be used to select dairy cows for machine milking. The problem to be solved in the method for evaluating and selecting cows for machine milking according to the quality of the udder, including the selection of cows of the first lactation according to the morphological and functional properties of the udder, is achieved by the fact that each indicator of the property of the udder is evaluated on a five-point scale, followed by the calculation of the udder development index as the ratio of the sum of points to the maximum possible number of points, select cows whose index is at least 0.9.

EFFECT: simplification of the process of evaluation and selection of cows for suitability for machine milking.

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