An individual-based model simulating goat response variability and long-term herd performance

Animal

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2084-2098

  Puillet, L ^a,b   Martin, O ^b   Sauvant, D ^b   Tichit, M ^a  

^a INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^b INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

Author keywords

dairy goat; herd; individual variability; management; simulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CAPRA HIRCUS;

EID: 78650515289     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1751731110001059     Document Type: Article

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