Heritability of reproductive traits in asturiana de los valles beef cattle breed

Archiv fur Tierzucht

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 489-496

  Goyache, Felix ^a   Gutierrez, Juan P ^b  

^a Área de Cultivos Hortofrutícolas y Forestales   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Age at first calving; Beef cattle; Calving ease; Calving interval; Gestation length; Heritability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035617406     PISSN: 00039438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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