Impact of different strategies and levels of preferential treatment on different methods of bull dam selection

Three milk, fat yield and final score type records were simulated for each cow in 20 herds of 200 cows over 13 years. At completion of the simulation, cows were ranked by different selection methods and the top 2% were chosen to be bull dams. Preferential treatment was simulated by increasing milk a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weigel, Daniel J.
Other Authors: Dairy Science
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/41590
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-03142009-040426/