Approaches to estimating daily yield from single milk testing schemes and use of a.m.-p.m. Records in test-day model genetic evaluation in dairy cattle

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 83, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 2672-2682

  Liu, Z ^a   Reents, R ^a   Reinhardt, F ^a   Kuwan, K ^a  

^a United Datasystems for Animal Production (VIT)   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alternate a.m. p.m. testing scheme; Daily yield; Genetic evaluation; Test day model

Indexed keywords

BOS TAURUS;

LIPID; MILK PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; DAIRYING; FEMALE; GENETICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LACTATION; METHODOLOGY; MILK; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SECRETION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; DAIRYING; FEMALE; LACTATION; LIPIDS; MILK; MILK PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RECORDS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034330433     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(00)75161-7     Document Type: Article

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