A Body Condition Scoring System for Bali Cattle (Report‪)‬

INTRODUCTION The anatomical characteristics of animals, i.e. their external shape, subcutaneous fat thickness, or amount of soft tissue in relation to frame size, can be related to their current nutritional status and future productivity. Body condition scores (BCS) are a way of subjectively assessing the amount of soft tissue, especially fat cover, in relation to the animal's skeletal size. Because the relationship between body condition and frame size is an indicator of the animal's nutritional history, BCS can be used to monitor the success of a feeding program in situations where owners can not use more direct measures of nutritional status such as feed analysis, nutritional faecal profiling, or monitoring blood chemistry.