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Sire effect on early and late embryonic death in French Holstein cattle.
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience - 1 May 2015
Ledoux D, Ponsart C, Grimard B, Gatien J, Deloche M C, Fritz S, Lefebvre R, Humblot P
Abstract excerpt
We investigated the effect of maternal sire on early pregnancy failure (between D0, day of insemination and D90) in their progeny during the first and second lactations (n=3508) in the Holstein breed. The estimated breeding value (EBV) for cow fertility of 12 bulls (reliability⩾0.95) was used to create the following three groups: low, medium and high EBV (EBV from -0.7 to 1 expressed as genetic standard deviation...
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