Effects of within herd variation on the relationship between genetic evaluations and performance of offspring
<p>1,032,438 Jersey and 1,162,578 Holstein official Dairy Herd Improvement Association (DHIA) records from 20,380 and 34,000 herd-years, respectively, were used to compute herd-year means and within herd-year standard deviations for individual mature equivalent (ME) milk, fat, and fat perce...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/41548 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-03122013-040052/ |