The anonymous cow - the 'old faithfuls' on every farm
410 million individual daily milk weight records were examined to determine resilient cows within herds in the US.
A cow’s resilience is heritable, ranging from 0.01 to 0.2 heritability, an American-based study on cow stress responses has found.
The findings of the study, which was conducted by Ms Fiona Louise Guinan, a PhD fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison presented her findings at the BSAS (British Society of Animal Science) conference this April.
