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Female fertility in French dairy breeds: current situation and strategies for improvement.
The Journal of reproduction and development - 1 Jan 2010
Barbat Anne, Le Mézec Pascale, Ducrocq Vincent, Mattalia Sophie, Fritz Sebastien, Boichard Didier, Ponsart Claire, Humblot Patrice
Abstract excerpt
In most countries where genetic selection for milk production has been conducted, a continuous degradation of reproductive performances has been observed in dairy cattle. This paper describes the phenotypic evolution of fertility traits in France for the main 3 dairy breeds and the different actions undertaken to counteract this unfavourable evolution of reproductive performance. In 2001, functional traits...
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