Do dairy farmers transplant fetuses to breed better milk producers?

MadSci Network: Agricultural Sciences

Subject: Do dairy farmers transplant fetuses to breed better milk producers?

Date: Sat Aug 26 23:36:45 2000
Posted by rick kinnersley
Grade level: 4-6 School: limestonegrade
City: kankakee State/Province: il Country: usa
Area of science: Agricultural Sciences
ID: 967347405.Ag

Message:


I remember reading somewhere that diary farmers would sometimes take a 
fetus from a good producer and put it in a less productive cow in order to 
keep the good producer on line and yet get better quality calves.  I have 
tried to find out if that is an ongoing technology or if it has been 
abadoned.

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