Relationships among estimated net income, herdlife and linear type traits in dairy cattle
Opportunity cost of postponed replacement (OC) is the income forfeited by keeping a cow for an extra day and is estimated by the income produced by an average replacement. The effect of adjusting a measure of net income, relative net income (RNI), for OC (RNIOC) by lactation was studied. After edi...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/38321 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06062008-165443/ |