An Illustration of lactation curves stratified by lactation yields within herd

Archives Animal Breeding

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 515-525

  Swalve, H H ^a   Guo, Z ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR FARM ANIMAL BIOLOGY FBN   (Germany)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

daily milk recording; Lactation curves; persistency; random regression models

Indexed keywords

EID: 85063817725     PISSN: 00039438     EISSN: 23639822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/aab-42-515-1999     Document Type: Article

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