Economic weights of somatic cell score in dairy sheep

Animal

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 205-212

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

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

^b CERSYRA   (Spain)

^c Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

Author keywords

Dairy ewes; Mastitis; Profits; Selection; Somatic cell count

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CALCULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETICS; MASTITIS; MILK YIELD; NONHUMAN; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; SOMATIC CELL; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 34248589958     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1751731107657826     Document Type: Article

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