Relationships among heifer traits, early-life productive traits, and lifetime productivity within Angus and Simmental female cattle
Data from 946 Angus and 351 Simmental females were used to quantify relationships between calfhood and early-life traits of females with fertility in the first two breeding seasons, and with calf production in the first, in three and in eleven years of life. These traits were used to develop predict...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/38383 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06062008-170125/ |