Genetic components of heat stress for dairy cattle with multiple lactations.

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Data included 585,119 test-day records for milk, fat, and protein yields from the first, second, and third parities of 38,608 Holsteins in Georgia. Daily temperature-humidity indexes (THI) were available from public weather stations. Models included a repeatability test-day model with a random regression on a function of THI and a test-day random regression model using linear splines with knots at 5, 50, 200, and...

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