Daughter performance based buffalo bull ranking for boosting milk production in Pakistan

The first lactation milk yield records of 2329 daughters of 180 bulls, (11 batches) during 1983-2005 were used in this study. BLUP breeding values for male and female were computed using DFREML. The fixed effects like herd-year-season and batch number of bulls had significant effect on milk yield as...

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Main Authors: A. Ghaffar, M.A. Chaudhry
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2010-02-01
Series:Italian Journal of Animal Science
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Online Access:http://www.aspajournal.it/index.php/ijas/article/view/968