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Genetic parameter estimates of portuguese dairy cows for milk, fat, and protein using a spline test-day model.
Journal of dairy science - 1 Mar 2005
Silvestre A M, Petim-Batista F, Colaço J
Abstract excerpt
A spline animal model was fitted to 152,103 test-day milk, fat, and protein yield records from 14,423 first-lactation cows. The models included age at calving and the herd-test-month as fixed effects. Model fitting was carried out using Restricted Maximum Likelihood with ASREML. For milk yield, t...
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