Inferring relationships between health and fertility in Norwegian Red cows using recursive models.

doi:10.3168/jds.2008-1535

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Inferring relationships between health and fertility in Norwegian Red cows using recursive models.

Journal of dairy science - 1 Apr 2009

Heringstad B, Wu X-L, Gianola D

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Health and fertility are complex traits, and the phenotype for one trait may affect the phenotype of one or more other traits. For instance, disease in early lactation may impair a cow's ability to show estrus and to conceive after insemination. The objectives of the present study were to explore phenotypic and genetic relationships among health and fertility traits in Norwegian Red cows using a recursive effects...

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Animals
Cattle
Cattle Diseases
Female
Fertility
Health
Ketosis
Male
Mastitis, Bovine
Models, Genetic
Phenotype
Placenta, Retained
Pregnancy

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PMID: 19307661
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2008-1535

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