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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 22.
Published in final edited form as: Reprod Domest Anim. 2007 Sep;42(Suppl 2):17–23. doi: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2007.00906.x

Table 2.

Effects of milk yield or lameness on aspects of oestrus

Milk yield1 Lameness status2
Average High Not lame Lame
Duration of being mounted (h) 11 6* 11.0 7.5*
Incidence of vulval sniffing - - 13 6*
Incidence of standing in oestrus 8.8 6.3* 9.5 5.6*
Duration of standing (sec) 28.2 21.7* - -
*

p<0.05 within a study;

1

Lopez et al. 2004 (33 versus 46 kg/day);

2

Walker et al. 2005 (yield 43kg/day)