Measures of before and after breeding daily gains of dairy replacement heifers and their relationship with first lactation milk production traits

Livestock Production Science

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 313-322

  Mäntysaari, Päivi ^a   Ojala, Matti ^b   Mäntysaari, Esa A ^a  

^a ANIMAL PRODUCTION RESEARCH   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Daily gain; Dairy cattle; Environmental correlation; Field study; Genetic correlation; Milk yield

Indexed keywords

BOS TAURUS;

EID: 0036316913     PISSN: 03016226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-6226(01)00329-3     Document Type: Article

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