The impact of sire daughter variability and repeatability on the accuracy of sire selection
Modified contemporary sire evaluation procedures, using first lactation records only, were used to compute Predicted Differences for all Holstein bulls having 10 or more daughters calving in any calendar year between January 1964 and June 1973. Significant heterogeneity of within sire daughter milk...
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/74134 |