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Multiple trait genetic evaluation of clinical mastitis in three dairy cattle breeds.
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience - 1 Apr 2016
Govignon-Gion A, Dassonneville R, Baloche G, Ducrocq V
Abstract excerpt
In 2010, a routine genetic evaluation on occurrence of clinical mastitis in three main dairy cattle breeds-- Montbéliarde (MO), Normande (NO) and Holstein (HO)--was implemented in France. Records were clinical mastitis events reported by farmers to milk recording technicians and the analyzed trait was the binary variable describing the occurrence of a mastitis case within the first 150 days of the first three...
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