A preference-based approach to deriving breeding objectives: applied to sheep breeding

Using internet-based software known as 1000Minds, choice-experiment surveys were administered to experts and farmers from the Irish sheep industry to capture their preferences with respect to the relative importance – represented by part-worth utilities – of target traits in the definition of a bree...

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Main Authors: T.J. Byrne, P.R. Amer, P.F. Fennessy, P. Hansen, B.W. Wickham
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2012-01-01
Series:Animal
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731111002060