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Heritabilities and correlations among body condition score, dairy form and selected linear type traits.
Journal of dairy science - 1 Jun 2003
Dechow C D, Rogers G W, Klei L, Lawlor T J
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The objectives of this study were to estimate the heritability of body condition score (BCS) with data that could be used to generate genetic evaluations for BCS in the US, and to estimate the relationship among BCS, dairy form and selected type traits. Body condition score and linear type trait records were obtained from Holstein Association USA Inc. Because BCS was a new trait for classifiers, scoring...
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