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Effects of birth-rearing type on weaning weights in meat sheep are systematically associated with differences in mean performance among flocks

BACKGROUND: Adjustment of body weights for systematic environmental effects such as dam age and litter size is essential for accurate prediction of breeding values in meat sheep and often accomplished by pre-adjusting records using simple multiplicative adjustment factors, which are derived as ratio...

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Autores principales: Notter, David R., Brown, Daniel J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4489108/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26138100
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12711-015-0136-2