Is too much backfat bad for bull fertility?

20/07/2025 12 min Episodio 6
Is too much backfat bad for bull fertility?

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Episode Synopsis

Welcome to the UGA Beef Tips podcast! In this episode, Dr. Pedro Fontes and Molly Smith, a PhD student from the Department of Animal and Dairy Science at the University of Georgia, delve into some recent research on the relationship between subcutaneous back fat thickness in bulls and their semen quality. 
Here is a link to the article discussed in this episode: https://academic.oup.com/tas/article/doi/10.1093/tas/txaf039/8106317. 
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