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Maternal effect on first-year growth of Hokkaido native foals kept outdoors all year round.
Animal science journal = Nihon chikusan Gakkaiho - 1 Jan 2000
Huricha, Kawai Masahito, Inose Yoshihisa, Yamada Fumihiro, Ninomiya Shigeru
Abstract excerpt
In this study, we investigated maternal effects on the growth of Hokkaido native horses kept outdoors throughout the year. We used the data on body weight (BW), height at withers (HW), heart girth (HG), and cannon circumference (CC) of 517 foals during the first year of life to (1) examine the growth patterns by comparing six linear mixed models and (2) analyze the maternal effect on BW, HW, HG, and CC for each...
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