A method to define breeding goals for sustainable dairy cattle production

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 89, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 3615-3625

  Nielsen, H M ^a   Christensen, L G ^b   Odegard J ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Breeding objective; Desired gain index; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS;

EID: 33748119469     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(06)72401-8     Document Type: Article

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