Optimal Breeding Strategies for Calving Ease
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Optimal breeding strategies for calving ease.
Calving ease is of economic importance in dairy cattle and should be considered in breeding programs. Economic values of direct and maternal calving ease were derived based on cost-benefit analysis and gene flow methodology. Marginal returns from dystocia reduction in primiparous dams were -$43 per phenotypic standard deviation compared with $300 for production. For an average mate, numbers of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Dairy Science
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0022-0302
DOI: 10.3168/jds.s0022-0302(94)77287-8