Environmental Correlations in Sire Evaluation
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Environmental correlations in sire evaluation.
Correlations were computed among averages of first lactation deviations from herdmate averages of groups of artificially sired daughters of the same Holstein bulls. The groups were constructed by specifying the time interval between animals in the different groups. Comparison of the actual correlations with the expected correlations suggests that environmental correlations are small or nil amon...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Dairy Science
سال: 1966
ISSN: 0022-0302
DOI: 10.3168/jds.s0022-0302(66)87786-x