Labelling experiments in red deer provide a general model for early bone growth dynamics in ruminants.

Both groups (C1 and C2) experiment a decreasing trend between pre- and post-weaning period, but in a different way: the group of hand-raised calves (C2) show a higher density than calves nursed by their mothers (C1) in the pre-weaning period while both groups show almost the same density after the weaning event (Fig. 5 b).

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