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<blockquote data-quote="greybeard" data-source="post: 1791393" data-attributes="member: 18945"><p>It's a term that been used for beef and dairy cattle for much longer than I've been alive.</p><p>It was certainly taught when I was in vocational ag class in the mid-late 1960s and I've seen it illustrated in some very old college ag course textbooks. Harder to see in all black cattle, especially with a winter coat but they're still there.</p><p></p><p><em><strong>What are happy lines?</strong></em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>For hundreds of years, before pedigrees, before milk testing, before genomics, cattle have been selected based on hair coat condition. You are well aware that healthy, shiny, clean hair coats are only on the healthiest cows. Happy lines are the horizontal folds across the ribs typically on the middle to lower third of the rib cage. Chances are you have seen them and just passed them off as a fat cow, but they have a story to tell</em></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/happy-lines-window-cow-health-joep-driessen" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/happy-lines-window-cow-health-joep-driessen</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greybeard, post: 1791393, member: 18945"] It's a term that been used for beef and dairy cattle for much longer than I've been alive. It was certainly taught when I was in vocational ag class in the mid-late 1960s and I've seen it illustrated in some very old college ag course textbooks. Harder to see in all black cattle, especially with a winter coat but they're still there. [I][B]What are happy lines?[/B] For hundreds of years, before pedigrees, before milk testing, before genomics, cattle have been selected based on hair coat condition. You are well aware that healthy, shiny, clean hair coats are only on the healthiest cows. Happy lines are the horizontal folds across the ribs typically on the middle to lower third of the rib cage. Chances are you have seen them and just passed them off as a fat cow, but they have a story to tell[/I] [URL]https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/happy-lines-window-cow-health-joep-driessen[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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