Economic values of production and functional traits, including residual feed intake, in Finnish milk production

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1092-1106

  Hietala, P ^a   Wolfova M ^b   Wolf, J ^b   Kantanen, J ^c   Juga, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL SCIENCE   (Czech Republic)

^c FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Dairy cattle; Economic value; Feed efficiency; Residual feed intake

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; BODY WEIGHT; BOVINE; BREEDING; DAIRYING; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FINLAND; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; MEAT; METABOLISM; MILK; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; BREEDING; CATTLE; DAIRYING; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FINLAND; GENETIC VARIATION; MALE; MEAT; MILK; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84892675402     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2013-7085     Document Type: Article

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