Use of a test day model for dairy goat milk yield across lactations in Germany

Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 160-167

  Zumbach, B ^a,c   Tsuruta, S ^a   Misztal, I ^a   Peters, K J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Norsvin   (Norway)

Author keywords

Dairy goats; Milk yield; Random regression model; Repeatability model; Test day model; Variance components

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREEDING; DAIRYING; FEMALE; GENETICS; GOAT; LACTATION; MILK; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SECRETION; STATISTICS; TIME;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; DAIRYING; FEMALE; GOATS; LACTATION; MILK; MODELS, GENETIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; CAPRA HIRCUS;

EID: 43949098242     PISSN: 09312668     EISSN: 14390388     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0388.2007.00718.x     Document Type: Article

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