This episode of the Herd It Here podcast discusses the discovery, development, and current status of one of the dairy industry’s newest genetic conditions: early onset muscle weakness. Chad Dechow, an associate professor of dairy cattle genetics at Penn State University and one of the researchers working to understand this genetic mutation, explains what dairy farmers and the dairy industry need to know about it for their animals. This episode is sponsored by Feanix Biotechnologies (https://www.feanixbio.com).

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