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Genetic and environmental analysis of female calf survival in the Israel Holstein cattle population.
Journal of dairy science - 1 Mar 2021
Weller Joel Ira, Gershoni Moran, Ezra Ephraim
Abstract excerpt
The objectives were to estimate the effects of various environmental factors on female calf survival of Israeli Holsteins, to estimate the economic value of calf survival under Israeli conditions, to estimate the genetic and environmental variance components for calf and cow survival using the individual animal model, to perform GWAS analyses of survival to first calving and herd life after first calving, to...
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