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Autor:
B. J. Mcguirk, J. W. James
Publikováno v:
Zeitschrift für Tierzüchtung und Züchtungsbiologie. 99:308-314
Publikováno v:
Animal Science. 68:423-426
The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food routinely publishes price information for 3-week-old beef + dairy calves sold at major livestock auction centres in England and Wales. For the period 1993/94 to 1996/97, there were average price premium
Publikováno v:
Veterinary Record. 161:685-687
Information on the losses associated with lower milk production and reproductive performance, as well as information from a survey of uk dairy herds using beef semen was used to estimate the economic importance of calving difficulties in uk dairy her
Publikováno v:
Animal Science. 66:47-54
Genetic parameters were estimated for traits recorded in a calving survey for beef sires used in commercial dairy herds in England and Wales. The five traits included in the survey were calving difficulty score, calf mortality to 48 h after birth, ge
Publikováno v:
Animal Science. 66:35-45
An analysis has been carried out of over 88000 calving survey records for bulls of eight beef breeds tested in commercial dairy herds in England and Wales. The data were collected from 1981 to 1993. The traits analysed were the degree of difficulty a
Publikováno v:
Animal Science. 52:421-434
Nucleus breeding schemes for dairy cattle give opportunities for selection on characteristics other than milk production, such as food intake or efficiency, and for the application of reproductive technologies such as embryo transfer. The emphasis in
Autor:
B. J. McGuirk
Publikováno v:
Animal Production Science. 49:1100
Early work in the 1950s on the wool growth response of sheep from diverse genotypes for wool production in response to varying planes of nutrition at pasture did not show the significant genotype × environment interactions exhibited in later pen stu
Publikováno v:
Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science. 1996:2-2
The MOET open herd operated by Genus is an open-nucleus breeding programme, designed to identify superior families and individual females. The herd of 250 cows was established over the period 1987-1990, with embryos from high genetic merit dams in No
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972). 1990:47-47
Food accounts for 80-90% of the variable costs in dairying in the UK. In contrast to genetic improvement programmes in most other species, no account has been taken of food intake or gross efficiency In dairy breeding programmes, In the UK or elsewhe
Autor:
B. J. McGuirk
Publikováno v:
Romance Studies. 3:91-111