Differences among beef sire breeds and relationships between terrain use and performance when daughters graze foothill rangelands as cows

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 97, Issue 2-4, 2006, Pages 105-121

  VanWagoner, Harv C ^a   Bailey, Derek W ^b   Kress, Donald D ^c   Anderson, Donald C ^a   Davis, Kathleen C ^c  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breed; Cattle; Distribution; Performance; Weaning weight

Indexed keywords

BREEDING; CATTLE; GRAZING; NUMERICAL MODEL; RANGELAND; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TERRAIN; WEANING;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS;

EID: 33646010352     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2005.07.005     Document Type: Article

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