Article
Interrelationships of heifer milk production and other biological traits with production efficiency to weaning.
Journal of animal science - 1 Mar 1992
Freking B A, Marshall D M
Abstract excerpt
Interrelationships among milk production, dam-calf feed efficiency to weaning, and other biological traits were evaluated on 411 first-calf heifers and their calves. Individual feed intakes were measured in a drylot environment for a 1-yr period until weaning of the first calf. Heifer breed types included crossbred Angus-Hereford, Simmental-Hereford, and Tarentaise-Hereford produced in two-breed rotational...
Topics
- Animals
- Body Constitution
- Body Weight
- Breeding
- Cattle
- Eating
- Energy Intake
- Female
- Lactation
- Nutritional Status
- Phenotype
- Pregnancy
