Effects of Sire Birth Weight on Calving Difficulty and Maternal Performance of Their Female Progeny

Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 5-8

  Paputungan, U ^a,b   Makarechian, M ^a   Liu, M F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b SAM RATULANGI UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Calving Difficulty; Growth Rate; Sire Birth Weight

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033483233     PISSN: 10112367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5713/ajas.1999.5     Document Type: Article

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