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Evaluation Of Hoof Circumference To Predict Birth Weight, R. J. Pruitt, K. Van Der Wal, M. Britt
Evaluation Of Hoof Circumference To Predict Birth Weight, R. J. Pruitt, K. Van Der Wal, M. Britt
South Dakota Beef Report, 1995
Records from 81 calves showed that hoof circumference is an unreliable predictor of birth weight. A hoof tape predicted only 25.9% of birth weights within 2 Ib of actual birth weight. For 29.6% of the calves the error in predicting birth weight was over 10 Ib.