New morphological and weight measurements by visual image analysis in sheep and goats

EAAP Scientific Series

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 227-232

  Negretti, P ^a   Bianconi, G ^a   Bartocci, S ^b   Terramoccia, S ^b   Noe L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^b Experimental Institute for Zootechnics   (Italy)

^c AGER Agriculture and Research   (Italy)

Author keywords

Goat; Linear evaluation; Sheep; Visual image analysis; Weight estimation

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS; BUBALUS; CAPRA HIRCUS; EQUIDAE; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 84861373090     PISSN: 00712477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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