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D-Index
28
Citations
3674
World Ranking
2658
National Ranking
750

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - ASAS Fellow: Administration Category, American Society of Animal Science

Overview

Kenneth G Odde is affiliated with Kansas State University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on livestock genetics, reproductive physiology, and agricultural economics, with a body of work that spans the genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock as well as aspects of meat and animal product quality.

Their recent scholarly output includes studies such as:

  • Effects of Holstein and beef-dairy cross breed description on the sale price of feeder and weaned calf lots sold through video auctions, 2022, Applied Animal Science
  • Field Trial Assessing the Use of Sex-Sorted Semen in Beef Cattle, 2022, Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research Reports
  • Breed trends in beef calf lots marketed through video auctions from 1995 through 2018, 2020, Applied Animal Science
  • Factors affecting the sale price of bred heifers and bred beef cows sold through video auctions, 2021, Applied Animal Science
  • Impacts of a post-transport/pre-processing rest period on the growth performance, anthelmintic efficacy, and serum metabolite changes in cattle entering a feed yard, 2022, Translational Animal Science

Their research themes include:

  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
  • Reproductive Physiology in Livestock
  • Meat and Animal Product Quality
  • Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Agricultural Economics and Policy
  • Helminth infection and control

Subfields of study related to their work involve:

  • Genetics
  • Agronomy and Crop Science
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Small Animals
  • Animal Science and Zoology

Kenneth G Odde has published extensively in several scientific venues, including:

  • Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research Reports
  • Journal of Animal Science
  • Applied Animal Science
  • Translational Animal Science
  • Ruminants

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Karol E Fike
  • E. D. McCabe
  • M. E. King
  • Glenn M. Rogers
  • M. J. Smith

In 2014, Kenneth G Odde received the ASAS Fellow: Administration Category award from the American Society of Animal Science.

Best Publications

  • A review of synchronization of estrus in postpartum cattle.

    K G Odde

  • The use of reproductive tract scoring in beef heifers.

    K J Andersen;D G LeFever;J S Brinks;K G Odde

  • Postnatal characteristics of calves produced by nuclear transfer cloning

    F.B. Garry;R. Adams;J.P. McCann;K.G. Odde

  • Factors affecting calf birth weight: a review

    M.D. Holland;K.G. Odde

  • An increase in serum lipids increases luteal lipid content and alters the disappearance rate of progesterone in cows.

    D E Hawkins;K D Niswender;G M Oss;C L Moeller

  • Persistent bovine viral diarrhoea virus infection in US beef herds.

    T. E. Wittum;Dale M. Grotelueschen;K. V. Brock;William G. Kvasnicka

  • Comparison of Melengestrol Acetate-Prostaglandin F2α to Syncro-Mate B for estrus synchronization in beef heifers

    L.N. Brown;K.G. Odde;M.E. King;D.G. LeFever

  • Short estrous cycles and associated serum progesterone levels in beef cows.

    K.G. Odde;K.G. Odde;H.S. Ward;H.S. Ward;G.H. Kiracofe;G.H. Kiracofe;R.M. McKee;R.M. McKee

  • Hematologic values in newborn beef calves.

    R. Adams;F.B. Garry;B.M. Aldridge;Holland

  • Suckling behavior in range beef calves.

    K. G. Odde;G. H. Kiracofe;R. R. Schalles

  • Vitamin E supplementation and stress affect tissue alpha-tocopherol content of beef heifers.

    C F Nockels;K G Odde;A M Craig

  • Relationship of Maternal Milk Expected Progeny Differences to Actual Milk Yield and Calf Weaning Weight

    C. H. Mallinckrodt;R. M. Bourdon;B. L. Golden;R. R. Schalles

  • The influence of neonatal health on weaning weight of Colarado, USA beef calves

    T.E. Wittum;M.D. Salman;M.E. King;R.G. Mortimer

  • Individual animal and maternal risk factors for morbidity and mortality of neonatal beef calves in Colorado, USA☆

    T.E. Wittum;M.D. Salman;M.E. King;R.G. Mortimer

  • Effect of certified health programs on the sale price of beef calves marketed through a livestock videotape auction service from 1995 through 2005.

    Michael E. King;M. D. Salman;Thomas E. Wittum;Kenneth G. Odde

  • Effects of prepartum protein nutrition and birth weight on basal metabolism in bovine neonates

    G E Carstens;D E Johnson;M D Holland;K G Odde

  • Development of preovulatory follicles expected to form short-lived corpora lutea in beef cows

    T. D. Bradent;M. E. King;K. G. Odde;G. D. Niswender

  • Injection-site lesions in carcasses of cattle receiving injections at branding and at weaning

    M H George;P E Heinrich;D R Dexter;J B Morgan

  • Causes and costs of calf mortality in Colorado beef herds participating in the National Animal Health Monitoring System.

    Wittum Te;Salman;Odde Kg;Mortimer Rg

  • Serum concentrations of insulin-like growth factors and placental lactogen during gestation in cattle. II. Maternal profiles

    M.D. Holland;K.L. Hossner;S.E. Williams;C.R. Wallace

  • Synchronization of estrus in suckled postpartum beef cows with melengestrol acetate, 48-hour calf removal and PGF2α

    J.V. Yelich;M.D. Holland;D.N. Schutz;K.G. Odde

Frequent Co-Authors

Mowafak D. Salman
Mowafak D. Salman Colorado State University
G.H. Kiracofe
G.H. Kiracofe Kansas State University
Gordon D. Niswender
Gordon D. Niswender Colorado State University
Thomas E. Wittum
Thomas E. Wittum The Ohio State University
Franklyn B. Garry
Franklyn B. Garry Colorado State University
Robert Adams
Robert Adams Flinders University
David Lalman
David Lalman Oklahoma State University
J. D. Tatum
J. D. Tatum Colorado State University
L.E. Hulbert
L.E. Hulbert Kansas State University
Gary C. Smith
Gary C. Smith Colorado State University

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