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International genetic evaluations for feed intake in dairy cattle through the collation of data from multiple sources.
Journal of dairy science - 1 Jan 2014
Berry D P, Coffey M P, Pryce J E, de Haas Y, Løvendahl P, Krattenmacher N, Crowley J J, Wang Z, Spurlock D, Weigel K, Macdonald K, Veerkamp R F
Abstract excerpt
Feed represents a large proportion of the variable costs in dairy production systems. The omission of feed intake measures explicitly from national dairy cow breeding objectives is predominantly due to a lack of information from which to make selection decisions. However, individual cow feed intake data are available in different countries, mostly from research or nucleus herds. None of these data sets are...
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