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Dataset on productive functional traits at first lactation and productive longevity from a herd of 185 Montbéliarde and Holstein cows managed on a low-input mountain-area grassland farm

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Barreto Mendes, Luciano | Coppa, Mauro | Martin, Bruno | Ferlay, Anne | Bouchon, Matthieu | Blanc, Fabienne

Edité par CCSD ; Elsevier -

International audience. The dataset available here comes from an experimental dairy cattle farm located in a mountain region in Central France, where the feeding systems are mostly pasture grazing combined with a period of indoor overwintering during the colder months. The dataset comprises individual productive and functional traits covering over 36 different variables in 185 primiparous Montb & eacute;liarde and Holstein cows, followed by data on productive longevity and reason for culling. The data was collected over a 20-year period during which animal husbandry and data collection protocols remained consistent. Potential re-users of the data are private-sector professionals, farmer associations, and researchers interested in developing statistical and mechanistic models and simulations of individual dairy cows under low-input grassland-based systems.

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