Article
Defining the breeding goal for a sheep breed including production and functional traits using market data.
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience - 1 Jul 2018
Theodoridis A, Ragkos A, Rose G, Roustemis D, Arsenos G
Abstract excerpt
In this study, the economic values for production and functional traits of dairy sheep are estimated through the application of a profit function model using farm-level technical and economic data. The traits incorporated in the model were milk production, prolificacy, fertility, milking speed, longevity and mastitis occurrence. The economic values for these traits were derived as the approximate partial...
Topics
- Animals
- Breeding
- Dairying
- Female
- Goals
- Milk
- Phenotype
- Sheep