Article
Effect of variability in response to superovulation on donor cow selection differentials in nucleus breeding schemes.
Journal of dairy science - 1 Feb 1990
Keller D S, Teepker G
Abstract excerpt
The effectiveness of nucleus breeding schemes based on multiple ovulation and embryo transfer in practice is highly dependent upon the achieved reproductive rate. This study quantifies the effects of donor cow variability in response to superovulation (random and phenotypically correlated with milk yield) and failure rates (proportion of selected cows producing no transferable embryos) on the mean and variance of...
Topics
- Analysis of Variance
- Animals
- Breeding
- Cattle
- Embryo Transfer
- Female
- Ovulation
- Phenotype
- Pregnancy
- Superovulation
