REARING PERFORMANCE OF FARMED FALLOW DEER (DAMA-DAMA)

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MULLEY, RC [1 ]
ENGLISH, AW [1 ]
KIRBY, AC [1 ]
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[1] UNIV SYDNEY,SCH CROP SCI,SYDNEY,NSW 2006,AUSTRALIA
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10.1111/j.1751-0813.1990.tb03063.x
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S85 [动物医学(兽医学)];
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0906 ;
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The ability of fallow does to rear fawns to weaning age was examined in a group of 243 adult does of known age (Group 1) and 509 adult does of unknown age (Group 2). All does had between 1 and 8 opportunities to rear fawns. There was an increasing proportion of does that failed to rear a fawn to weaning age as the number of rearing opportunities increased, although most does (93.6%) only failed on one occasion. A small percentage of does in groups 1 and 2 failed repeatedly to rear fawns to weaning. At slaughter, the presumed causes of failure in chronic non-breeders included pyometron, cystic ovaries, cervical cysts, a vulval neoplasm and salpingitis. The overall rearing success of both groups of deer was 82.4% and there was no consistent pattern of rearing failure relating to parity or previous rearing history.
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