Use of sire evaluations for first, all, and later lactations to predict lifetime profit functions of individual daughters

Sire evaluations from first, all, and later lactations for Predicted Difference milk, fat, and dollars on 226 sires were used to predict deviated relative net income. Eleven different relative net incomes were calculated on 176,902 individual cows. Low, medium and high values were used for lifetime...

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Main Author: Beaudry, Thomas Fernand
Other Authors: Dairy Science (Genetics and Management)
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/51125
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12182013-040020/