Relationship between female fertility and production traits in Canadian Holsteins

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 93, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 4427-4434

  Sewalem, A ^a,b   Kistemaker, G J ^b   Miglior, F ^a,b  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b CANADIAN DAIRY NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accounting for selection; Fertility; Multiple trait analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955617909     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2009-2915     Document Type: Article

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