Penjelasan tentang langkah untuk mengetahui dan menentukan kondisi tubuh sapi perah dengan cara yang paling mudah disertai latihan.

1. Body Condition Scoring
in Dairy Cattle
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4. Goals of Body Condition Scoring
• Early detection of potential health
problems.
• Identifiy area for improved feeding
management.
• Improve herd health, production,
reproduction, profitability.
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5. Effect of Lactation Stage
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6. Ranges of Ideal BCS
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8. Side view Rear view
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9. Side view
• First view the pelvic area from the side.
• Check line from hooks to thurls, to the
pins.
• Make a decision about the line over the
thurl, this is the cut point between 3.0 or
less and 3.25 or greater scores.
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10. Side view
• If the line forms a flattened V, then BCS
≤ 3.0
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11. Side view
• If the line forms cressted or flattened U
consider BCS ≥ 3.25
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12. Rear view
• If sacral and tailhead
ligaments visible BCS =
3.25
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13. Rear View
• If sacral ligament and
tailhead ligament barely
visible BCS = 3.50
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14. Rear view
• If sacral ligament barely
visible and tailhead
ligament not visible BCS
= 3.75
• If sacral and tailhead
ligaments not visible BCS
= 4.00
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15. Rear view
• If hooks rounded BCS =
3.00
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16. Rear view
• If hooks angular BCS
< 2.75
• Check pins. If pins
padded BCS = 2.75
• If no fat on pins BCS
< 2.50
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17. Rear view
• View the short ribs. Look
for corrugation along the
top of the short ribs as fat
covering dissapears.
• If corrugation visible ½ way
between tip and spine of
short ribs BCS = 2.25
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18. Rear view
• If corrugation way from tip
to spine BCS = 2.0
• If thurl prominent and saw
toothed spine BCS < 2.0
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19. Rear view
• If thurl flat BCS < 4.0
• If tip of short ribs barely visible BCS = 4.25
• If thurl flat and pins burried BCS = 4.5
• If hooks barely visible BCS = 4.75
• If all boney prominent well rounded BCS =
5.0
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21. Excercise
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