Review: Deciphering animal robustness. A synthesis to facilitate its use in livestock breeding and management.

Abstract excerpt

As the environments in which livestock are reared become more variable, animal robustness becomes an increasingly valuable attribute. Consequently, there is increasing focus on managing and breeding for it. However, robustness is a difficult phenotype to properly characterise because it is a complex trait composed of multiple components, including dynamic elements such as the rates of response to, and recovery...

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

• Share to Animal Husbandry
• Share to Breeding
• Share to Environment