Economic weights of fertility, prolificacy, milk yield and longevity in dairy sheep

Animal

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 193-203

  Legarra, A ^a,c   Ramon M ^b   Ugarte, E ^a   Perez Guzman M D ^b  

^a NEIKER and a Vaccine producing Commercial Company CZVSL   (Spain)

^b CERSYRA   (Spain)

^c Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

Author keywords

Breeding objectives; Dairy ewes; Profits; Rescaling; Selection index

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREED; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FERTILITY; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETICS; LAMB; LONGEVITY; MILK YIELD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; SOMATIC CELL;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 34248532005     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1751731107657814     Document Type: Article

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