Inferring relationships between health and fertility in Norwegian Red cows using recursive models

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1778-1784

  Heringstad, B ^a,b   Wu, X L ^c   Gianola, D ^a,c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b GENO Breeding and AI Association   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal effect; Fertility; Health; Recursive model

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETICS; HEALTH; KETOACIDOSIS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; RETAINED PLACENTA;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HEALTH; KETOSIS; MALE; MASTITIS, BOVINE; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; PLACENTA, RETAINED; PREGNANCY;

EID: 65249146569     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2008-1535     Document Type: Article

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