Body condition score of Nellore beef cows: a heritable measure to improve the selection of reproductive and maternal traits
Despite the economic importance of beef cattle production in Brazil, female reproductive performance, which is strongly associated with production efficiency, is not included in the selection index of most breeding programmes due to low heritability and difficulty in measure. The body condition scor...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2015-01-01
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| Series: | Animal |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731115000154 |