Breeding for robustness in cattle /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Netherlands :
Wageningen Academic Pub,
2009.
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| Series: | EAAP publication ;
no. 126. |
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Table of Contents:
- The role of environmental sensitivity and plasticity in breeding for robustness : lessons from evolutionary genetics
- Genetic concepts to improve robustness of dairy cows
- Robustness as a breeding goal and its relation with health, welfare and integrity
- Robustness in dairy cows : experimental studies of reproduction, fertility, behaviour and welfare
- An international perspective on breeding for robustness in dairy cattle
- Co-operation between Nordic and US Holstein alters the ratio between the traits that contribute to total merit
- Predictive ability of different models for clinical mastitis in joint genetic evaluation for Sweden, Denmark and Finland
- Breeding for improved disease resistance in ruminants
- Do robust dairy cows already exist?
- A review on breeding for functional longevity of dairy cow
- Heritability of lifetime milk yield and productive life and their relationship with production and functional traits in the Simmental, Swiss Fleckvieh and Red Holstein populations in Switzerland
- Genetic correlation between persistency and calving interval of Holsteins in Japan
- Parameter estimation and genetic evaluation of female fertility traits in dairy cattle
- Relationship between milk production traits and fertility in Austrian Simmental cattle
- Relationships between disorders of the bovine hoof and fertility in dairy cattle herds in Northern Germany
- Environmental and genetic effects on claw disorders in Finnish dairy cattle
- Genetic analysis of claw disorders and relationships with production and type traits
- Milk production, udder health, body conditions score and fertility performance of Holstein-Friesian, Norwegian RedxHolstein-Friesian cows on Irish dairy farms
- Derivation of direct economic values for body tissue mobilisation in dairy cows
- The link between energy balance and fertility is dairy cows
- Potential to genetically alter intake and energy balance in grass fed dairy cows
- Profitable dairy cow traits for hot climatic conditions
- Perception of robustness traits in breeding goal for dairy cattle in a new EU country
- The role of robustness in type classification