ICAR

Webinar on “Recording and evaluation of BCS and its relationship with health and welfare”. 31 May 2022

This page contains the whole video of the ICAR/IDF webinar on “Recording and evaluation of BCS and its relationship with health and welfare” held on 31 May 2022 during the ICAR Annual Conference in Montreal.

Programme

• Introduction
  C. Egger-Danner (ICAR FT WG)
• BCS recording and biology
  N. Gengler (ICAR FT WG) and N. Friggens (INRAE)
• The relationship between body condition score and cow well-being
  M. Haskell (ICAR FT WG)
• BCS and conformation: from recording to data quality assurance
  M. van Pelt (ICAR CR WG)
• Automatic technology and BCS recording: possibilities, reliability and requirements for data exchange
  S. Sievert (ICAR MRSD SC) and R. Fourdraine (ICAR Animal Data Exchange WG)
• Economics of early detection of diseases by using BCS
  H. Hogeveen (IDF SCAHW)
• Genetics of body condition score and its association with feed efficiency, fertility and health.
  A. Köck (ZuchtData) and J. Pryce (ICAR FT WG)
• BCS and it’s use for optimization of feeding / herd management
  D. Santschi (Lactanet)

More information about the webinar, were contained in the specific brochure that has been prepared and made available here