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title: "5.1.5 Events after reproductive phase"
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After the reproductive phase, some domestic animals are allowed to retire. Also with its own environmental influences on top of its past experiences during life. In nature animals usually do not retire but die before they reach that age. Farm animals are usually culled even before the end of the reproductive period. Note that environmental influences early in life may influence the phenotype later in life. However, not all early influences have a lasting effect. Some of the influences will be reversible or of insignificant influence.